AI takes center stage at Korea Press Foundation conference – WAN-IFRA

More than 200 publishers, journalists and media practitioners attended on November 9 the Korea Press Foundation Journalism Conference 2023 on “AI and the Transformation of the News Industry” , aimed at exploring the impact of AI technology on journalism.Speakers included Elena Perotti, Executive Director of Public Affairs and Media Policy at WAN-IFRA, Charlie Beckett, Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Ernest Kung, AI Product Manager at the Associated Press, and Elyse Samuels, Senior Producer of Visual Forensics at the Washington Post.Elena Perotti, spoke of “AI and News Business Transformation” before a select group of media publishers, and she gave an overview of the current use of Artificial Intelligence in newsrooms, the potential for the future and the efforts of governments and international coalitions to regulate the matter. She said that publishing houses should adopt internal guidelines for the use of AI, thoroughly train their staff and join forces in taking measures to ensure that their content is not used by AI models without autorisation and fair compensation.Ernest Kung, AI product manager at the Associated Press, who spoke on ” How to Use Generative AI in the Newsroom” introduced the
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