How AI Could Be Used In Journalism Articles Big Data

Using AI and deep learning to create a quick report on the statistics and quotes used should be relatively simple, scanning through complex and variable data sources to discover patterns that show whether information is correct or not. These tools could even check that images accompanying the article show the correct picture and context. A recent article on Breitbart, for instance, could see them end up in court after they used an image of Lukas Podolski, a German soccer player who has appeared for his country 130 times. The image of Podolski and another man appeared under the headline'Spanish police crack gang moving migrants on jet skis', but a 10 second Google image search would have shown that this was actually an image of Podolski on a Jet Ski trip during the Rio 2016 World Cup. A simple AI system would have picked this up almost instantly through image recognition and allowed them to avoid the embarrassment and potential law suit that Podolski is reportedly considering against them.