New York Times has green light AI tools for products and edits staff

The New York Times is now making AI tools available to its products and editorial teams. Report Semafor.

The news reached staff via email. In this news, the publication announced the debut of a new internal AI summary tool called Echo.

The New York Times also shared an editorial guidelines for using AI tools, as well as a suite of AI products that staff can use to build web products and develop editing ideas. The editorial staff of the paper is recommended to use AI tools to suggest editing, brainstorm interview questions, and assist in research. At the same time, staff were warned not to use AI to draft or modify articles significantly or significantly modify sensitive source information.

These guidelines also suggest that using AI may implement digitally expressed articles and translations in other languages.

Semafor reported that Times has approved AI programs such as Github Copilot Programming Assistant for Coding, Google’s product development, NotebookLM, Amazon AI products, and AI Pitch AI through business accounts on Openai’s non-chat GPT APIs I’m doing it.

The embrace of the New York Times AI tools still occurs as they are caught up in a lawsuit against Openai and Microsoft that allegedly violated copyright laws by training publishers’ generative AI on content.