In the second of a series of posts from a workshop at the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School (read the first part on idea generation here), I look at using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini to improve sourcing and story research.

Research is arguably the second-highest risk area (after content generation) for using generative AI within journalism. The most obvious reason for this is AI’s ability to make things up (“hallucinate“) — but there are other reasons too.

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