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Newspaper conglomerate Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of its articles

The summaries are already live on some stories.

Gannett, the media company that owns hundreds of newspapers in the US, is launching a new program that adds AI-generated bullet points at the top of journalists’ stories, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge. The AI-generated summary “aims to enhance the reporting process and elevate the audience experience,” according to the memo, which also states thatthe AI model that powers the tool was trained in-house over nine months. According to Digiday, unionized workers at the Democrat & Chronicl e in Rochester, New York, were alarmed to see a clause addedto their contract during bargaining that read: “Artificial intelligence (AI) may be used to generate news content.”

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