(Image credit: claude.ai, prompt: 'generate a comically bad AI image that might be used in a newsroom')

Last February, Dr. T. J Thomson presented at Hacks/Hackers Brisbane on the perceptions, challenges and opportunities for generative AI in newsrooms.

Now, as many newsrooms have started experimenting and are looking to solidify and mature their policies on AI, T.J takes a timely look at what the audience is thinking.

AI can be used for a number of purposes in journalism from brainstorming and enriching to optimising, editing, creating, and presenting. Yet it also has serious potential ethical and legal implications, including around bias, inaccuracies, copyright, labour, creativity, and credibility.

Acknowledging this tension, this talk will explore news audiences’ experiences with AI-generated or -edited content in journalism and identify the social-ethical-legal issues that news audiences think exist in this area.

So what are the expectations news audiences have for how AI should be used in journalism and how comfortable they are with around two dozen specific use cases?

Come along to find out.