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Insider Union ✊ on X: "1. Journalism is human-led. 2. AI can’t take our jobs. 3. Workers should be able to choose whether they use AI tools in their work. These principles are vital to a future in which our journalism continues to be accurate, trustworthy, and engaging. (2/7)" / X

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1. Journalism is human-led. 2. AI can’t take our jobs. 3. Workers should be able to choose whether they use AI tools in their work. These principles are vital to a future in which our journalism continues to be accurate, trustworthy, and engaging. (2/7)

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Our union is currently negotiating for sensible AI protections in our workplace. We believe in three basic principles when it comes to artificial intelligence in our newsroom: (1/7)
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1. Journalism is human-led. 2. AI can’t take our jobs. 3. Workers should be able to choose whether they use AI tools in their work. These principles are vital to a future in which our journalism continues to be accurate, trustworthy, and engaging. (2/7)
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3/ And our company leadership’s stance isn’t so different from ours. In a recent podcast, @BusinessInsider CEO Christian Baesler said that when it comes to media, AI “has to be used by humans with clear ethical and moral judgement and ultimately, taste.” (3/7)
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Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider’s parent company @axelspringer, has said, “The human being is responsible for the content, style, language, and factual accuracy… What they cannot do is hand over the entire process to AI.” (4/7)
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Yet, management has been unwilling to agree to these common-sense principles. Without these guardrails, there would be nothing stopping BI from creating AI-generated news, replacing journalists with AI, and forcing those that remain to use tools that don’t make their jobs...(5/7)
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...easier or better. We want to continue to work in a newsroom that values human labor and trusts its journalists to use the best tools for our work. Business Insider’s leadership can ensure this by agreeing to our AI standards and working with us to build...(6/7)
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7/ a strong future for this newsroom. If you care about journalism staying human-led, and believe that human journalists — not AI — should be at the center of the work they produce, comment and repost to show your support. #NewsNotSlop #NoSlopInOurShop (7/7)

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Insider Union ✊ on X: "1. Journalism is human-led. 2. AI can’t take our jobs. 3. Workers should be able to choose whether they use AI tools in their work. These principles are vital to a future in which our journalism continues to be accurate, trustworthy, and engaging. (2/7)"

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