Text Shot: The Times is not the first newsroom to turn to LLMs to parse through the mountains of audio and video material on the internet that journalists are expected to consume to keep on top of their beats. Local news outlets across the country have been using LLMs to keep tabs on school board and town hall meeting livestreams through email summaries. Last year, my colleague Neel covered “Roganbot,” a tool created by AI consulting lab Verso to generate searchable transcripts of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Among several features, the tool suggests potentially controversial or false statements to fact-check.
The Manosphere Report was built by the Times’ AI Initiatives Team, a small newsroom unit launched in 2024. While other major newsrooms in the U.S. have explored using AI to build reader-facing chatbots or to assist with drafting or editing articles, the AI Initiatives Team has largely emphasized using generative AI for data analysis and investigative reporting in the…
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