Wired: We Asked the Future of Truth Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn't Go Well

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2. That 82% figure was for use at all in the previous year, NOT daily use, as Rosenbaum said.

I found that MuckRack study - https://muckrack.com/resources/research/state-of-journalism - and 40% of journalists used AI for transcription at some time during the preceding year. Ideally proofreading the transcripts later while listening to the audio.

32% used Grammarly, with probably the majority of those just using it check spelling and maybe grammar. I'd guess most if not all of the journalists using Grammarly had started using it long before it added a lot of AI features last fall.

I was surprised to read that 47% used ChatGPT. Not sure what it might have been used for, but I'm guessing possibly a quick search, maybe to see if it would turn up anything different from a Google search. Google's Gemini was next at 22%. Those are the two most widely used chatbots, I believe.

13% used AI tools built for their newsroom, and possibly might have been required to use those.

As the Wired article explains, only a quarter of journalists used AI for writing assistance.