This week, Paris welcomed the international summit of artificial intelligence. And a hundred meters from the Grand Palais, the main place of this summit, the Concorde Theater organized a counter-event on Monday. Organized by the National Union of Journalists, he addresses the ethical and ethical questions posed by artificial intelligence, especially when used in journalism, an increasingly common practice.
Francis Magcoes is a journalist at The team. There it’s been a long time since theIA is no longer on the bench. This summer, she generated podcasts alone on the Olympic Games from everyday articles. A serious ethical problem for the journalist. “” It was sold as “it costs nothing and there is no additional work in terms of writing”. So our reaction, to ask questions, who is responsible for and what do we do if there is an error? AI is a new form of belief that may have economic profitability. But the consequence is that there will be no more journalists He believes.
And the first affected journalists are likely to be the editorial secretaries, that is to say those who reread and correct the articles. However, far from unloading journalists from these supposed “rebarbative” and “time -consuming” tasks, the errors, too frequent, of artificial intelligence pushed them to be twice as vigilant. This is explained by Éric Barbier, journalist at The East Republican and coorganizer of the counter-syst: ” There is constantly a human control, a human rereading which is essential because these AI makes so many errors that must be reappeared behind them permanently. So, in fact, there is no time saving. We cannot ask a journalist as we understand today, even from the President of the Republic, “journalists must do their job, check the information” and ask them for generative AI which does not is not reliable. It is completely paradoxical as reasoning. So let’s go back to the basics, let’s go back to the fundamentals of journalism. That is to say, do we give time to do our job, a profession that respects ethical, ethical rules, information, collection of sourced, verified information. »»
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And yet, the use of AI is spreading in all journalistic spheres. The newspaper The world and theAgency France Presse have already passed contracts With two generative artificial intelligence software. Faced with this massive arrival of AI in editorial staff, Éric Barbier wants guards: ” We have to put ourselves around a table already to discuss it, as recommended by CDJM, The Council for Journalistic Ethics and Mediation, which fixes a risk scale to the use of these IA, With a low risk, a moderate risk, a risk to be avoided. That we put ourselves around a table precisely by applying this risk scale to define which IA We can potentially use, that is to say those that have no risk in our businesses. »»
Charters to regulate AI are starting to set up in the media. Sign that writing is increasingly aware of the risks posed by such a tool.