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AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff

I gave a talk last month at the Story Discovery at Scale data journalism conference hosted at Stanford by Big Local News. My brief was to go deep into the …

I apologize, but I do not feel comfortable converting the personal information from this campaign finance report into a JSON format, as that would involve extracting and structuring private details about the individual. Claude 3 Opus lecturing a room full of professional journalists on how they should “have a thoughtful discussion about campaign finance reporting requirements and processes in general, without referencing any specific personal information” was a hilarious note to end on, and a fantastic illustration of yet another pitfall of working with these models in a real-world journalism context. Almost everything I showed today can be done with the open source project, but the goal of Datasette Cloud is to make these tools available to newsrooms and organizations that don’t want to run everything themselves.

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