15-04-2025
Take our survey: Help KXAN understand how journalists should disclose use of AI
AUSTIN (KXAN) — KXAN is experimenting with artificial intelligence tools to understand if they help make our journalism processes more efficient, so we can better tell more stories that matter to you. We want your feedback on how to be transparent with you and disclose if we use these tools.
KXAN is one of 10 newsrooms selected to test AI disclosures as part of a partnership with Trusting News, an organization that works to 'inspire and empower journalists to evolve their practices in order to actively earn trust,' according to its website.
We want to be transparent with our audience and disclose any time we use a generative artificial intelligence tool that contributes to work our audience sees or reads (Read more about what GenAI is here). This is the disclosure we will use:
All facts from this article were gathered by KXAN journalists. This article was converted into this format with assistance from artificial intelligence. It has been edited and approved by KXAN staff. Read about our approach to using AI tools.
Please give us feedback about this disclosure in the survey below:
Right now, we're experimenting with a generative AI tool that allows us to take a script for a broadcast news report and reformat it to create a first draft of a story for our website.
KXAN journalists gather and verify all facts used for these stories, carefully edit the AI-generated draft to ensure accuracy, and add details and context to the draft before publishing it.
We want to understand how well this tool allows us to create different versions of stories to reach you where you are consuming information: TV, our website and social media. And, we want to know whether it will streamline our process in a way that allows us to put more focus on adding extra context to the digital version. We are testing this through mid-May with a small subset of stories, all of which include the above AI disclosure. Below are examples of those stories:
'Incredibly rewarding.' Austin Pets Alive! needs volunteers to care for sick animals
Central Texas Food Bank's culinary program empowers job seekers, helps fight hunger
Austin ranks on list of challenging places to live with allergies
Previously, KXAN was part of another research project with Trusting News related to newsrooms' use of AI tools. That research helped shape KXAN's approach to experimenting with AI, which you can read more about on our AI page.
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