A brief roundup of tips and examples of using ChatGPT and generative AI for journalism (especially data journalism) - presentation from DataHarvest 2023

1. Using ChatGPT
for journalism
aka Generative AI

2. “What ChatGPT deals
in is not truth; it is
plausibility.”
Tim Harford

3. Coding.

4. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Eay_LuW8LO71qAOPUGGkNjUOvf7FPpzV?usp=sharing

5. Refine your prompts, edit the code

6. …edit the code

8. https://source.opennews.org/articles/testing-pdf-data-extraction-chatgpt/

9. Writer’s block.

13. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/francescopmarconi_many-journalists-i-know-are-using-chatgpt-activity-7025836653818601472-iAZ8/

14. Data.

17. “They’re language models,
meaning they’re really
good at tasks involving
language. But they’re not
fact models, or verification
models, or math models.”
Gina Chua

18. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/francescopmarconi_many-journalists-i-know-are-using-chatgpt-activity-7025836653818601472-iAZ8/

19. Writing.

20. https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/finding-newsworthy-documents-using-generative-ai-a43a41a90e30

22. Useful resources
● Journalismaidiscovery.com
● The Generative AI in the Newsroom Project
● Colab notebook of generative AI (get an API key from
https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys)
● AutoRegex (generate regex with AI)
● https://pinboard.in/u:paulbradshaw/t:ai+generative

23. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1rr0dxKpwK5zjch1V4eKjwwyVW-AzuDTw
Get an API key from https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys