Most newsrooms across the U.S. and Europe are all-in on AI, according to a new study from the Associated Press, which found that nearly 70% of those surveyed are already using AI in some way. “It’s an exciting moment for journalism and technology, maybe a little too exciting, which makes it difficult to plan for the next year let alone what may transpire in the next 10 years,” says Aimee Rinehart, co-author of the AP study. Primary uses of AI in newsrooms right now include auto-generating story drafts, social media posts, newsletters and headlines, translating text and transcribing reporter i ..read more

For writers, there’s gold in them VR Hills Imaginative writers looking for alternative job opportunities may want to check-out a new trend set by Victoria VR. It’s a virtual reality metaverse platform promising to add new tools to enable writers and others to create virtual worlds, games and apps using popular AI tools like ChatGPT. System requirements: A great imagination — and a great way with words. Observes writer Ishan Pandey: “Some examples of possible uses for this tool include games, digital commerce, interactive showrooms, and virtual education platforms.” AI tools Victoria AI plans ..read more

While fewer AI writing CEOs are twisting themselves into pretzels attempting to claim that automated writing tools are simply happy assistants that wouldn’t dream of stealing a writing job, ChatGPT-maker’s CEO Sam Altman nevertheless came-out with a stunner in Q1, 2024. AI, Altman says, is on track to usurp 95% of marketing work — most of which hinges on writing. That remarkable candor pretty much set the tone for Q1 2024, during which writers saw automation picking-off good paying writing jobs faster than they could say ‘Take me to your AI overlord.’ Journalists, for example, learned that fi ..read more

Expert users of multiple AI auto-writers, imagers and video-makers may want to check-out a new service that offers access to all those tools from a single, centralized dashboard. Dubbed BlendAI, the new platform — which offers one-stop access to popular AI tools like ChatGPT, Mistral and Stable Diffusion — also enables you to do side-by-side comparisons and ‘shoot-outs’ of those tools. BlendAI is also pitching savings: Sign-up for the service, and you’ll probably spend less money aggregating with BlendAI than attempting to subscribe to a variety of these AI tools separately. In other AI-gener ..read more

AI Rewrites Press Releases, Calls It News A growing number news sites have decided to bypass reporters completely and simply go live with whatever they happen to find in a press release — courtesy of an AI-rewrite. Writer Bron Maher reports that the tool they’re using is Gutenbot, by Reach. Granted, editors at the news outlets using the AI are supposedly tasked to double-check the press release rewrites to ensure the data and claims spewed in the press release are faithfully re-spewed in the AI rewrite. But apparently, there are no links to the original source material — agency written press ..read more

RobotWritersAI.com is playing hooky. We’ll be back Mar. 4, 2024 with fresh analysis of the latest in AI-generated writing. The post Gone Fishin’ appeared first on Robot Writers AI ..read more

ChatGPT-Maker Readies New ‘Instant Video’ Tool OpenAI is currently testing a new AI tool — dubbed ‘Sora’ — that can auto-generate a high-quality, 60-second video using just a string of words as input. Observes writer Cade Metz: OpenAI has designed a system “that creates videos that look as if they were lifted from a Hollywood movie. “A demonstration included short videos — created in minutes — of woolly mammoths trotting through a snowy meadow, a monster gazing at a melting candle and a Tokyo street scene seemingly shot by a camera swooping across the city.” The ChatGPT-maker joins a number ..read more

From the Department of Love, AI Style: A Russian man has used AI writing to whisper sweet nothings to 5,000+ potential lovers — and find himself a bride. Observes Alexander Zhadan: “I proposed to a girl with whom ChatGPT had been communicating for me for a year. “To do this, the neural network re-communicated with 5,239 other girls — whom it eliminated as unnecessary and left only one.” Zhadan also credits ChatGPT for engaging in small talk, planning dates and ultimately assisting him in proposing to his fiancée, according to writer Pranav Dixit. No word yet if Zhadan also plans to off-load o ..read more

You can’t blame Microsoft for grinning ear-to-ear: Its profits are up 33% for Q4, 2023 — a clear sign that it’s getting a significant bump from its investment in AI. Observes Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft: “We’ve moved from talking about AI to applying AI at scale. “By infusing AI across every layer of our tech stack, we’re winning new customers and helping drive new benefits and productivity gains across every sector.” Microsoft’s most famous bet on AI was to generously fund ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — when the startup was little more than a glimmer in an AI researcher’s eye. Not a bad call. In ot ..read more

Top AI-Imaging Tool Promising Auto-Video Popular AI-automated imaging tool-maker Midjourney is promising to roll-out an enhancement soon that will enable users to auto-create video using simple, conversational text-commands. While a number of text-to-video AI tools are already on the market, Midjourney is known for high-end imaging — and a video version of its tool could set a much higher benchmark for automated video, indicates writer Alex McFarland. Observes McFarland: “This strategic move by Midjourney — a name synonymous with innovation in digital artistry — is posed to change the generat ..read more