What we have learned about journalism in the AI era two years on
Round-table discussions at Press Gazette’s Media Strategy Network USA event in New York in November 2024 Two years on from the launch of ChatGPT what do we know about journalism in the new era of artificial intelligence? Glide Publishing Platform hosted dozens of the brightest minds in media at a series of roundtables on the place of AI in media and publishing at two major Press Gazette events in London and New York, here are some of our takeaways. Publishers are largely on board the AI train Publishers have leaped ahead of the hype AI train. Two years into a ChatGPT world, publishers have moved from being behind the AI conversation to driving it themselves. Most of the big titles we spoke with now have formal policies in place covering the use of AI, rapidly advancing internal expertise in place, editorial and business training programmes under development, and a better understanding of the threats AI use can present to publishing businesses. The roundtables were all off the record, but one senior figure from a New …