Manosphere report
AI can be both a threat to the news business, or it can be an incredible tool for streamlining some of the processes that go into everyday reporting. Here's Nieman Lab on the New York Times using AI to scrape the so-called "manosphere" for shifting reactions to the Jeffrey Epstein files:
Built in-house and known internally as the “Manosphere Report,” the tool uses large language models (LLMs) to transcribe and summarize new episodes of dozens of podcasts.
“The Manosphere Report gave us a really fast and clear signal that this was not going over well with that segment of the President’s base,” said Seward. “There was a direct link between seeing that and then diving in to actually cover it.”
Read it all: How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”