Automated journalism

<p>Automated journalism, also known as algorithmic journalism or robot journalism, is a term that attempts to describe modern technological processes that have infiltrated the journalistic profession, such as news articles and videos generated by computer programs. There are four main fields of application for automated journalism, namely automated content production, data mining, news dissemination and content optimization. Through <a href="/facts/Generative_artificial_intelligence/ykT3GGyT">generative artificial intelligence</a>, stories are produced automatically by computers rather than human reporters. In the 2020s, <a href="/facts/Generative_pre-trained_transformer/U6JNeDMe">generative pre-trained transformers</a> have enabled the generation of more sophisticated articles, simply by providing <a href="/facts/Prompt_engineering/SVE53ytb">prompts</a>.
</p><p>Automated journalism is sometimes seen as an opportunity to free journalists from routine reporting, providing them with more time for complex tasks. It also allows efficiency and cost-cutting, alleviating some financial burden that many news organizations face. However, automated journalism is also perceived as a threat to the authorship and quality of news and a threat to the livelihoods of human journalists.
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Automated journalism