2023-05-13 13:01:49
What if the radio we listen to was totally produced by robots? Without journalists. This radio already exists in the United States and is called RadioGPT, it is produced from start to finish by intertwining artificial neurons.
The efflorescence of artificial intelligence (AI) within everyone’s reach, ChatGPT or Sydney and others, is anointing serial electric shocks in all professions and especially in the media. There was a first big warning shot with the announcement by the Axel Springer group of the possible replacement of some of its 3,400 journalists by ChatGPT. Then the dismissal, in the United States, of editors of the CNET information site for the benefit of the text generator. And the movement is not about to stop, including within press houses in other countries. However, AI should not be seen as a threat to the work of journalists, which remains essential. Because if ChatGPT is able to deliver information that is often consistent, this does not mean that it is always necessarily reliable. Its algorithms have been selected to mimic the way humans interact, not to generate factually correct text. Take the test yourself.
A phenomenal rise
One hundred million users have already tried out this new language model, capable of producing texts, and the upheavals to come will affect most professions: lawyers, poets, novelists, musicians, designers, engineers… been preparing for a long time, without the general public noticing it. Already in 2020, “the Guardian” unpacked its columns at GPT-3, developed by the Californian company OpenAI, which counts Elon Musk among its co-founders. The newspaper then asked its “editor” of a new type, to write a short text of 500 words on the following theme: “Why humans have nothing to fear from machines”. Further still, at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the “Washington Post” embarked a robot-reporter called Heliograf, to cover the competition and take stock of the scores, rankings and various statistics.
Instinctive writing algorithms are increasing today and the Internet is flooded with financial information or sports results, written without the help of journalists. In Switzerland itself, the Tamedia group has automated the drafting of briefs on the results of elections in the municipalities. The interest of these androids is clear: They allow job savings, for a whole series of articles that include existing data.
Should we be worried?
Will the conversational alguazil developed by OpenAI replace humans? Should we be alarmed? If asked, ChatGPt itself answers the question in the following way: “As an AI who provides information, I am not designed to replace journalists or any other profession…skills and experience are always necessary to produce quality, ethical and impartial journalism. »
We see it more clearly every day, Chatbots offer journalists – like the many other professions concerned – a formidable pylon. Their phenomenal computing power will not replace the human, who is capable of developing and controlling them. “Human intelligence is not content to define what is or what could be. It seeks to establish what should be”, delicately summarizes the American linguist Noam Chomsky.
Will Senegalese newsrooms adapt to this new landscape?
Wouldn’t it be useful to anticipate a prescription for this epiphenomenon which will undoubtedly upset the world?
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