Is AI Breaking the News? With Pete Pachal from Mediacopilot

Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In the first episode of Season 2, we look at the role of AI in Journalism.  Are journalists facing a vicious cycle of generating click bait to drive revenue to keep media companies afloat to pay journalists to generate more click bait? Is AI making it worse - or might it offer a more positive future for journalism?Our guest, Pete Pachal of Media CoPilot is of the latter opinion. He is confident that AI can liberate journalists from the more onerous, less rewarding tasks that have always been part of the job, allowing them to focus on the human side of the stories they cover. He also introduces us to Channel 1, a news channel in the making, which promises a "personalized global news network", fronted by entirely AI generated presenters, breaking real, factually accurate news.As you'll imagine, we have questions...