Resumen de Semi-automated journalism: reinforcing ethics to make the most of artificial intelligence for writing news
Artificial intelligence apps based on bots and algorithms for automating diverse newsroom routines and tasks, such as information search, retrieval, classification, and treatment, figure among the new developments that have most disrupted news production processes. Automated journalism is a reality that has been progressively introduced by the international mainstream media. The spread of automated journalism poses a number of editorial challenges for the media, particularly in relation to enhancing machine–human collaboration to produce more and higher-quality news content. Ever since algorithms and bots were first leveraged to produce news, many critics have cautioned that the widespread use of this technology may endanger newsroom jobs. The debate on the ethical challenges posed by the new media landscape should be accompanied by a series of analyses of the best recommendations for putting them into practice. The news media are currently facing the huge challenge of addressing innovation in an ethical manner, in accordance with their social remit.
