Italian Newspaper Creates Entirely AI-Generated Edition

An Italian newspaper says it has created the world’s first issue generated entirely using AI, with journalists limited to asking questions of a chatbot and reading the answers before inserting them. The Guardian earlier reported on the initiative by Il Foglio, an Italian liberal conservative paper. Claudio Cerasa, editor of Il Foglio, said the experiment serves as a test for how AI could work “in practice” in a newsroom and forces journalists to ask tough questions about the technology’s impact on the industry. “It will be the first daily newspaper in the world on newsstands created entirely using artificial intelligence,” said Cerasa. “For everything. For the writing, the headlines, the quotes, the summaries. And, sometimes, even for the irony.” The four-page “Il Fogolio AI” was inserted into the larger Tuesday edition, and can also be viewed online. Early experiments with using generative artificial intelligence in newsrooms have not gone particularly well. Back in 2023, CNET fac ... Read full article.