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Experts are divided whether AI will ever fully replace journalists, but widely expect it handle more mundane tasks
Experts are divided whether AI will ever fully replace journalists, but widely expect it handle more mundane tasks © LEON NEAL / AFP/File

Paris (AFP) – Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. Yet.

But many commentators believe journalism is on the cusp of a revolution where mastery of algorithms and AI tools that generate content will be a key battleground.

The technology news site CNET perhaps heralded the way forward when it quietly deployed an AI program last year to write some of its listicles.

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