Some editors of the German newspaper Bild are to be replaced by artificial intelligence
Bild, one of the largest German newspapers, will replace people holding a number of editorial positions with artificial intelligence. We are talking about hundreds of layoffs.
This was reported by The Guardian, citing an email from Bild’s publisher, Axel Springer Verlag, to employees.
It is noted that as part of a €100 million cost-cutting program, artificial intelligence is planned to replace “editors, print production staff, proofreaders, and photo editors.”
“Unfortunately, we will have to part ways with colleagues who have tasks that can be performed by artificial intelligence and/or automated processes in the digital world,” the publisher said in a letter to Bild.
According to an email seen by Bild’s competitor, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the positions of “editors, print production staff, proofreaders and photo editors will no longer be the same as they are now.”
In February, Matthias Depfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE, the newspaper’s owner, said that the media company should become “purely digital” and that artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT could “make independent journalism better than it has been.”
He also suggested that artificial intelligence would soon become “a better aggregator of information than humans.”
According to him, in the future, only publishers that can create “the best original content,” such as investigative journalism, will remain.
In 2023, the UK plans to host the first-ever AI security summit. The exact date is still unknown.
Currently, there are ongoing discussions around the world about the need to regulate artificial intelligence.
In particular, the G7 member states are discussing the adoption of legislation that will regulate the use of artificial intelligence technologies.
The European Commission, in turn, has called on 44 companies and organizations that have signed the Code of Practice on Online Disinformation to label content created by artificial intelligence.
OpenAI CEO and ChatGPT chatbot developer Sam Altman also called on US lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence (AI).
Earlier it was reported that according to the World Economic Forum, over the next five years, technology and artificial intelligence could cut 26 million jobs worldwide.
What we know about ChatGPT chatbot and OpenAI lab
ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, a research laboratory that studies artificial intelligence. Elon Musk was among its co-owners. He founded the company in 2015 and left in 2018.
The chatbot can generate texts on specified topics and answer questions in a clear language. ChatGPT is considered to be the most professional chatbot, but it can give false and biased answers.
“While we take security measures, the system may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information and create offensive or biased content,” GPT says.
ChatGPT was introduced at the end of November 2022, and within a week, the bot had more than 1 million users. In January 2023, ChatGPT reached 100 million active users. Initially, the bot was available for free, and later the company announced the launch of a $20 subscription to ChatGPT in the US.
The developer of the chatbot has banned some countries from using its services due to sanctions, so it is not available in Russia.
On February 18, the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov announced that ChatGPT was available in Ukraine. However, the program will not work in the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia, so that the Russian military does not use it.
In late February, Chinese authorities banned local tech companies from offering users access to ChatGPT chatbot in their services.
