• by Ray Schultz , September 5, 2024

The Dallas Morning News has formed a cross-departmental team to evaluate its newsroom’s use of AI. 

A statement by the newspaper also attempted to bring transparency to AI usage. 

“We do not use generative AI to produce text, headlines, photographs, graphics, data visualizations, interactives or other content for publication,” it writes. “We will explicitly note if generative AI tools are used to analyze or filter data and source material intended for publication, including how they were used.

In addition, it permits the “use of basic AI tools for non-content creation purposes such as transcribing audio and checking grammar and spelling is permitted in our newsroom.”

The statement defines GenAI as follows:

“Generative artificial intelligence, which uses large language models to create text, images, graphics and interactive media, can be a useful tool. We also know it can produce inaccuracies and misinformation.”