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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

AI-generated news should carry ‘nutrition’ labels, thinktank says

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The IPPR recommended standardised labels for AI-generated news, showing what information had been used to create those answers. Photograph: mundissima/Alamy

AI-generated news should carry “nutrition” labels and tech companies must pay publishers for the content they use, according to a left-of-centre thinktank, amid rising use of the technology as a source for current affairs.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said AI firms were rapidly emerging as the new “gatekeepers” of the internet and intervention was needed to create a healthy AI news environment.

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