Zach Wise

The article referenced in the videos cbsnews.com/news/college-t…

All of the examples use this article on rising tuition costs as the source material for a TikTok video. We created AI chatbot personalities and asked them to write us a voice script for a TikTok video. 🧵2/8

This past year, I've had students explore how AI can turn suburban newspaper journalism into niche content, delivered by AI TikTok personalities. Excited to share 4 unique AI-driven takes on the same article, showcasing our range! #AI #Journalism #TikTok @knightlab 🧵1/8

My students and I obviously have a lot of thoughts on the pros, cons and ethics of these examples and I hope to start sharing more of that soon. Maybe I'll share some of them from our Angry Grandma personality 🧵8/8

And just for fun, I made one in the style of David Attenborough narrating the article as if it were a nature documentary 🧵7/8

For some context, I'm running some projects in the @knightlab next quarter looking at automating the creation of editorial art for articles. studio.knightlab.com/projects/ai-ar…

It feels like a design system, or paintbrush but magical. It's equal parts exciting and scary but trying to stop this would be pissing against a tidal wave. I'm gonna surf 🏄 🧵(9/9)

Prompt-crafting is definitely a real thing. It's like learning to use a weird paintbrush made by robots from another dimension. #stablediffusion #aiselfie 🧵(1/9)

@drewvigal @StabilityAI @Poynter I shared some quick thoughts on my journey/research so far in this thread (illustrated of course). twitter.com/zlwise/status/… Lots more to come!

After playing around with @StabilityAI's DreamStudio Lite (beta.dreamstudio.ai) for a few days, I was inspired to write this: poynter.org/reporting-edit… Thanks to @poynter for publishing it. /1