Where it belongs in newsrooms.
WHERE IT HELPS
Transcribing interviews Summarising documents and reports Searching large document sets Translating Drafting routine content from structured data Producing headline and subheading options Suggesting questions before an interview
WHERE IT MUST NOT BE USED
Reporting facts it generated Producing quotations Writing anything presented as reporting without verification Replacing the work of establishing what is true
THE CENTRAL POINT
Journalism is the verification. That is the entire value.
A tool that generates plausible text does the opposite of journalism.
WHERE IT GENUINELY EARNS ITS PLACE
Investigative work over large document sets: leaks, disclosures, public records.
Finding what to look at, then reading it yourself.
WHAT MUST NEVER BE PUBLISHED
Any fact, figure, name, date or quotation that was generated rather than reported.
THE PROFESSIONAL POSITION
The byline carries responsibility. Whatever produced the draft, the journalist is accountable.
WHAT NEWSROOMS SHOULD ESTABLISH
What may be used, for what, and what must be disclosed.
