The Associated Press news agency has set a set of rules that regulate the use of artificial intelligence technologies in news production, to ensure the level of service provided to its clients around the world.

Acting Standards Sector Director Amanda Barrett said, in a statement, that she is aware of the capabilities offered by artificial intelligence to provide news coverage of events at a high level of speed and quality, but that does not mean that artificial intelligence replaces human journalists, stressing that they continue to perform their role by collecting, evaluating and presenting Facts in text, audio, video and video news stories.

The US agency stated that the new rules for regulating the use of artificial intelligence include allowing all journalists to use the “ChatGPT” platform within the framework of an agreement with the “OpenAI” company, according to which the agency obtains a license to use, but at the same time journalists are not allowed to publish any content created through the smart platform. before it was modified by reporters.

The rules stipulate that any content created with artificial intelligence be treated as unreliable content, and journalists must apply the agency’s standards in dealing with information sources on this content before publishing, in addition to not allowing the use of artificial intelligence tools to modify any images, videos or audio clips. , as well as adding a disclaimer if a fully AI-generated image was used.

The agency warned its journalists against entering any confidential or sensitive information when dealing with artificial intelligence tools, in order to ensure the privacy of information and ensure that it is not leaked.

And she stressed the need to be careful when dealing with any text, audio or video data issued by various parties, and to ensure that they are real and not created or modified by artificial intelligence, and the need to ensure the reliability of the data source, in order not to publish any false news or fake information. Unintentionally, and if the journalist has any doubts about the reliability and truth of the data, he should not use it.

The New York Times announced, at the beginning of this month, the policies and conditions for using artificial intelligence in its news services, which prohibit the use of any news materials, whether text, video, audio, or any other forms, to train any programs or electronic systems, and explicitly mentioned artificial intelligence models.

Google launched a set of new features that enrich the user experience when searching on its “Google Search” engine, through its program of experimental search features with artificial intelligence.