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Brian Chau joins MTS to discuss automating investigative journalism with AI, running queries on million-document databases, and how Effort News is changing the economics of data-driven reporting.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:51) What Does Effort News Do
(03:28) Changing Journalism's Economics
(06:09) Preventing AI P-Hacking
(10:35) Limits of AI Investigations
(15:06) Solicitations in Traditional Journalism
(16:58) Other AI Applications
(26:12) Legacy Media's Innovator Dilemma
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