Il Foglio prints world’s first fully AI-generated newspaper

An Italian newspaper, Il Foglio, has created a fully artificial intelligence (AI) edition for a month. It claims to be the first newspaper in the world to use this technology to produce complete editions. The goal is to innovate journalism, not replace it. Il Foglio began this project on Tuesday, publishing a four-page AI edition alongside its regular one. Each edition features about 22 articles and three editorials. The journalists provide topics and tones to an AI tool, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which then generates articles based on information found online. This week, topics included analyses of political speeches and a fashion story. The newspaper's director, Claudio Cerasa, shared that this experiment aims to explore the limits and possibilities of AI in journalism. He believes that while AI can produce competitive content, human creativity still holds an advantage. The experiment has sparked interest, with a 60 percent increase in sales on its first day. Many journalists in the newsroom are excited rather than worried. They find the project engaging and believe it opens doors to new audiences. Readers' reactions have been mostly positive, with 90 percent entertained by the AI content but some expressing concern about maintaining the quality of human-written articles. Overall, they appreciate the experiment's innovative spirit.