IL Foglio, a daily newspaper with a circulation of around 29.000 copies, claims to be the first newspaper in the world to print entire editions created using AI, an emerging technology that is changing the way newsrooms work, reveals AFP.
Each four-page AI-generated issue includes about 22 articles, ranging from politics to finance, as well as three editorials.
In practical terms, the newspaper's 20 or so journalists ask OpenAI's ChatGPT 'chatbot' to write an article on a given subject and with a given tone, and the tool produces the text using information collected from the internet.
Among the articles written by AI this week are an analysis of speeches by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, an editorial on the phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and an article on fashion.
The newspaper’s director, Cláudio Cerasa, said that the objective is “to test and understand the limits of artificial intelligence, but also its opportunities. The frontiers that must be overcome and those that cannot”.
The director also explained that the article requested from the AI tool must follow the newspaper's standards and "if there are too many errors, we change the article, if there are too few, we leave them, because we want to show where the limits are. It's not a question of beauty", he said.
