The New York Times (NYT) has implemented AI tools for its product and editorial teams. This move aims to leverage AI capabilities for a range of tasks, including copywriting, headline optimization for search engines (SEO), and even coding.
The deployment of AI was announced through an internal email, introducing the new internal AI summary tool, Echo. Additionally, NYT provided access to a variety of AI products for web development and editorial brainstorming, such as GitHub Copilot, Google’s Vertex AI, NotebookLM, and certain Amazon AI offerings.
NYT’s editorial staff is encouraged to utilize AI tools for editorial suggestions, interview question generation, and research assistance. However, they are cautioned against using AI to draft or substantially revise articles or input sensitive source information.
The guidelines suggest the potential for AI-generated audio articles and language translations in the future.
This adoption of AI aligns with the ongoing debate over copyright, as NYT is involved in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for potential copyright infringement in using its content to train their AI models.
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