Building AI for African data journalism means solving problems the mainstream AI conversation ignores. Four lessons from four years on Nubia. | TechCabal

The dominant AI-for-journalism conversation, then and now, is largely about generation.The implicit assumption is that you have structured data, or at minimum, clean text. For the newsrooms we were building for, that assumption was almost never true. The hard problems were upstream of generation, and they stayed upstream no matter the generative model used.

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