Italian Il Foglio announced that it became the first newspaper in the world to publish an issue entirely created by artificial intelligence. It is reported by The Guardian.
The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Claudio Ceraza, explained that this month-long experiment should show how artificial intelligence technology affects journalists’ work and our daily lives.
“This will be the world’s first daily newspaper on newsstands created entirely with the help of artificial intelligence. It was used for everything – writing, headlines, quotes, summaries. And sometimes even for irony,” he said.
According to him, the journalists’ role will be limited to asking questions to the AI tool and reading the answers.
On the front page of Il Foglio AI, there is an article about US President Donald Trump, saying that Italian Trumpists criticize the cancellation culture. Still, support Trump even when he behaves like a dictator, i.e., they do not cancel him.
Also on the cover is a column titled “Putin: 10 Betrayals”, which refers to ’20 years of broken promises, broken deals and betrayed words’ by Putin.
In a rare positive article about Italy’s economy, the latest report from the national statistical agency Istat shows that the situation in the country is improving. In particular, the wage increase for approximately 750,000 workers was one of the positive results of tax reforms. The second page describes how young Europeans avoid stable relationships and increasingly opt for “situational relationships.”
The last page of the newspaper contains letters from readers generated by artificial intelligence. In them, people ask whether AI will make people “useless” in the future. In response, the AI jokes that although it is cool, it cannot even order coffee with sugar correctly.
Editor Claudio Ceraza said that Il Foglio AI is an authentic newspaper based on news, discussions, and provocations.
The Guardian notes that the articles created by artificial intelligence were clearly structured, written clearly, and without grammatical errors. However, none of them contained direct quotes. The four-page issue of Il Foglio AI was included in the regular print edition of the newspaper and is available on newsstands and online from Tuesday, March 18.