The New York Times now allows product and editorial teams to use AI tools, which may one day write a copy of society, SEO titles, and code, SEMAFOR report.
The news came to the staff through an email, in which the publication announced the debut of the new internal AI summary tool called Echo.
The New York Times also shares a suite of AI products that staff can use to produce web products or develop editorial ideas, including editorial guidelines for the use of AI tools. Paper editorial staff are encouraged to use AI tools to suggest editing, brainstorm interviewing questions, and research assistance. At the same time, staff warned not to use AI to draft or significantly change an article or input confidential resource information.
Those guidelines also suggest times when AI can use to implement digital voice articles and translation in other languages.
Semafor reported that The Times said it would approve AI programs such as Github Copilot Programming Assistant for Coding, Google's vertex AI for product development, notebooklm, some Amazon AI products, and the Non-chatgpt API of Openai by a business account.
The New York Times embrace of AI tools came because it was still membership in a suits against Openai and Microsoft For an out of violation of copyright law by training in Generative AI in the publisher's content.
