The document discusses the application of ChatGPT and generative AI in journalism, emphasizing that these models focus on plausibility rather than truth. It provides various resources and links for journalists to enhance their work, including tips for refining prompts and using code effectively. Key insights from industry experts highlight the limitations of AI in fact verification and data accuracy.

1. Using ChatGPT
for journalism
aka Generative AI

2. “What ChatGPT deals
in is not truth; it is
plausibility.”
Tim Harford

3. Coding.

4. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Eay_LuW8LO71qAOPUGGkNjUOvf7FPpzV?usp=sharing

5. Refine your prompts, edit the code

6. …edit the code

8. https://source.opennews.org/articles/testing-pdf-data-extraction-chatgpt/

9. Writer’s block.

13. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/francescopmarconi_many-journalists-i-know-are-using-chatgpt-activity-7025836653818601472-iAZ8/

14. Data.

17. “They’re language models,
meaning they’re really
good at tasks involving
language. But they’re not
fact models, or verification
models, or math models.”
Gina Chua

18. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/francescopmarconi_many-journalists-i-know-are-using-chatgpt-activity-7025836653818601472-iAZ8/

19. Writing.

20. https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/finding-newsworthy-documents-using-generative-ai-a43a41a90e30

22. Useful resources
● Journalismaidiscovery.com
● The Generative AI in the Newsroom Project
● Colab notebook of generative AI (get an API key from
https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys)
● AutoRegex (generate regex with AI)
● https://pinboard.in/u:paulbradshaw/t:ai+generative

23. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1rr0dxKpwK5zjch1V4eKjwwyVW-AzuDTw
Get an API key from https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys