#2. Weekly roundup of AI for Newsroom

Hello! This is Sergei from 'AI for Newsroom'.

Let's have a look at the past week — we have two things to highlight:

• This week we've reached 200+ AI initiatives. Also we have a big leap with the number of AI guides and policies — we have 53 items for now.

• And I've made The Chat, that allows users to communicate with our 200+ items in AI initiatives database. You can ask questions like 'How newsrooms in Italy use AI to earn money?' and get reply with examples, links and explanations from the database. Here we have some 'behind the scene' of the Chat.

And then I start thinking, that probably being chats, having conversational interface is some sort of future for news media. Chat is familiar, convenient and very-very simple to use.

It looks like we have two paths (among others): either become paid API suppliers for big tech, feeding their AI models with content, or transform into chat-based platforms themselves. Direct chat interfaces connected to content databases offer control, personalization, and new monetization options, bypassing traditional scraping and RSS feeds. And have unique ton of voice, perspective etc can lead people back to the websites (that direct traffic that we all still want).

This approach empowers media to resist big tech dominance, letting audiences interact in familiar chat formats, big tech just won't have a thing to parse from as all conversation is between user's requests and database. Even if websites are blocked (hello, media in exile or under pressure), chats can be recreated on platforms like Telegram or WhatsApp, ensuring content remains accessible and secure.