The New York Times now allows its products and editorial teams to use AI -tools, which may one day write a social copy, SEO titles and code, Reports a seed.
The news came to staff via email, in which the publication announced the debut of its new internal AI -summary tool called Echo.
The New York Times also shared a set of AI products that staff could use to build online products or develop editorial ideas, along with editorial guidelines to use AI tools. The paper’s editorial is prompted to use AI tools to suggest edits, brain interview questions and help with research. At the same time, personnel were not warned to use AI to edit or significantly review an article or enter confidential source information.
These guidelines also suggest that the times could use AI to implement digitally voiced articles and translations into other languages.
Semafor reports that The Times said it will approve AI programs such as GitHub Copilot Programming Assistant for Coding, Google’s Vertex AI for product development, Notebooklm, some AMAZO AI products and Openai’s non-CATGPT APIs through a trading account.
AI’s New York Times scope comes because it is still inserted into Process against Openai and Microsoft due to presumably violating copyright law training generative AI on the publisher’s content.
