The Wall Street Journal is testing AI article summaries
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6S6T7)
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The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with AI-generated article summaries that appear at the top of its news stories. The summaries appear as a Key Points" box with bullets summarizing the piece. The Verge spotted the test on a story about Trump's plans for the Department of Education, and the Journal confirmed it's trialing the feature to see how readers respond.
The Key Points" box has a message explaining that an artificial intelligence tool created this summary" and that the summary was checked by an editor. The box also points to a page about how the WSJ and Dow Jones Newswires use AI tools.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge The AI-generated Key Points" from this WSJ article.We are always...