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20250321 - News Corp fills out tabloid papers with AI slop: NewsGPT


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So not much change then. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/21/news-corp-fills-out-tabloid-papers-with-ai-slop-newsgpt/

News Corp rolls out NewsGPT AI tool for staff in Australia: https://www.capitalbrief.com/article/news-corp-rolls-out-newsgpt-ai-tool-for-staff-in-australia-317ccf9f-ac75-44ee-a555-40d075874119/preview/ News Corp introduces its own AI model — NewsGPT — to 'enhance' not 'replace' jobs: https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/12/news-corp-ai-model-newsgpt/ News Corp's AI tool faces union scrutiny ahead of pay talks: https://www.capitalbrief.com/article/news-corps-ai-tool-faces-union-scrutiny-ahead-of-pay-talks-2b5067fb-b392-4bad-992f-a5e4fc4eba7b/preview/ News Corp using AI to produce 3,000 Australian local news stories a week: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/01/news-corp-ai-chat-gpt-stories Before this year, the DailyTele had never used ChatGPT to illustrate pieces in the newspaper: https://x.com/earleyedition/status/1798600872940990725 Where do Australian newsrooms sit on AI? https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/19/artificial-intelligence-ai-abc-news-corp-guardian/ AI-generated news is unhuman slop. Crikey is banning it: https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/06/24/crikey-insider-artificial-intelligence-policy/

Previously:

Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/17/guardian-does-openai-deal-new-york-times-goes-ai-for-newspaper-content-generation/

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