Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News

As the United States' biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, readers remain unimpressed. In a new poll conducted by Poynter and the University of Minnesota, nearly half of the survey's respondents said they don't want AI reporting the news to them — and 20 percent say that news publishers shouldn't be using the technology at all. For the early March poll, the institutions recruited 1,128 demographically diverse people to form a representative sample of Americans. In an online survey, those respondents were asked a battery of questions about their media consumption and literacy levels before being asked about their personal AI use and their opinions regarding its use in journalism. When asked if they had any interest in "tools that allow readers to get information by chatting with a virtual assistant or digital chatbot that delivers AI-generated answers from previously published reporting" — the kind of thing that publishers as disparate as Snop ... Read full article.