SAN FRANCISCO: Google is working with news publishers to design a new AI-backed tool to help journalists report and write their stories, the company said on Thursday.
The project was first reported by The New York Times, which is working with The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in testing the new product.
Citing anonymous sources, the report said the tool — known internally as Genesis — was in an early testing stage, but impressive enough to be found “unsettling” by some of the news executives that saw its capabilities.
A Google spokeswoman said in a statement that “in partnership with news publishers, especially smaller publishers, we’re in the earliest stages of exploring ideas to potentially provide AI-enabled tools to help their journalists with their work.”
She added that “quite simply, these tools are not intended to, and cannot, replace the…
