Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI

Politico was one From the first news rooms last year Earn Unity Agreement The rules of how the media output can place artificial intelligence. Pencil Guild, which represents the public and sister publication, environment and energy site, is now the first to be the first. The members of the Union claim that the provisions of the EU contract are violated and preparing for the legal dispute of groundbreaking. The result can finally set a precedent for how many introductory journalists are used for how the AI’s newsroom is used.

Last year, Politico began summarization of the live news created by the AI ​​during major political measures such as Democratic National Convention and the United States Vice President. This is a march, it’s debut A set of AI tools called the help of political exploration for subscribers built in the partnership with the startup starting header support startup title. Politico Executive Rachel Loeffler described At that time, “easily connects the UNER AI with unparalleled policy experience.”

Members of the Policy Union, these vehicles violated their contracts in several ways, and these July arbitration. “The company is required to use a 60-day 60-day, buttons to use a new technology, the use of new technologies will be aware of 60 days,” says Pen Union Seace and E & E Public Health Correspondent Ariel Wittenberg. The union claims that this policy claims that he did not know anything warning or an opportunity for the AI ​​rollout of his policy and the work will be carried out by human workers.

“This is a test that is not only a contract dispute, but a test for journalists in our work. (Pen Guild is a unit within Newsguild, one of the most prominent units for journalists.)

Politico says, “Severely accepts the commitment to the collective bargaining contract,” the EU will continue to respect these obligations to revolutionize such transformative technologies, such as consuming news and information. “

Politico’s contract involves the publication that the publication should be used in accordance with the EI’s journalist ethics standards. “We are not against the AI, but this will meet the same ethics and style standards as our political journalists,” Arianna Skibell, the vice-land of the Union’s Energy Industry Bulletin. Some members of union are always in question whether human control over the context of AI.

In one case, the use of phrases such as “criminal migrants such as” the vice-president of human writers, a live summary of the EU created.

“EU’s actual mistakes that he entered that night,” Skibell claims. For example, he says the EU, which lends the EU, which is seen by Biden’s leadership as something like Kamala Harris. This article was later changed without errors, according to screenshots reviewed by string. “In Politico, you can not take only a number of approvals, the articles written by human journalists before the leadership of all the news rooms. This did not happen to a live summary.” (Policy did not comment on the features of the claims.)