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I have been having increasing trouble explaining to my colleagues in the newsroom that copying and pasting from the internet or any widely available tools that are based on large language models, such as ChatGPT, is counterproductive for journalists, including for their knowledge and professional development. But to no avail.
What I have been experiencing as a news editor is not unique or new, as research has been pointing to the extensive use of writing tools at educational and business levels. In the long run, this could undermine crucial human faculties such as critical thinking and information retention.
It is important for the state, society and all learning and content-producing institutions to sound the alarm that continued overreliance on machines will be damaging to humans and society. We should heed the calls of experts who say that many people are unaware that relying only on machine tools to complete tasks will, over time, undermine professional progress and the development of skills. This prevents people becoming better journalists, researchers or academic achievers. It impedes journalists’ ability to produce cutting-edge reports and inform society through thoughts and reflections based on new insights. We cannot rely on re-representing what is already available and is just aggregated by the machine again and again.
