Aldo Fontanarosa
Artificial intelligence and the Newsroom:
App, Software, Hardware.
Why raw content ownership is no longer enough, and how smart publishers are turning proprietary data into high-value operational dependencies.
As the world confronts a widening gap between intensifying climate impacts and the slow pace of action to tackle the crisis,1 this report, now in its fourth edition, continues to examine how people engage with climate change news and information. This analysis draws on four years of comparable data collected in the same eight countries: Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (USA). In addition to tracking trends in climate news consumption over time, this year’s report introduces new themes, including public evaluations of political leadership on climate change, audience needs for climate news coverage, and perceptions of the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
In 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office ruled that images generated with Midjourney for the comic Zarya of the Dawn could not receive copyright protection because they were not the product of human authorship. The text written by author Kristina Kashtanova and the selection and arrangement of the comic’s elements, however, remained protected. The decision established an important distinction between works created by humans with AI assistance and material generated directly by an algorithm.