Since OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT was launched back in November, journalists have been discussing its potential impact on the news industry.
How many journalists will be replaced by the rise of generative artificial intelligence? How fast will this process take place? Which journalists will be most vulnerable to this kind of disruption? And should we see ChatGPT as a challenge or as an opportunity to solve some of the problems the news industry faces?
As all of these questions and more are hotly debated, I spoke to three experts and two startup founders to gain a clearer idea of how generative AI and large language models are likely to affect journalism in the short and the medium term.
