The Washington Post has launched its own chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to answer its readers’ questions about climate. Accessible online, the “experimental” tool’s “responses are based solely on published reporting by Post journalists,” the publication said, adding that the outlet’s team has been covering climate and environment for more than two decades. However, the tool only searches through articles from the past eight years. As newsrooms start to embrace generative AI, what does that mean for journalism?Use of generative AIThe chatbot is powered by a large language model…
