Zach Wise

@KnightLab
👨‍🎨 Creator of @TimelineJS & StoryMap
🎓 Associate Professor @NorthwesternU
📰 Alum of @NYTimes

[Zach Wise @zlwise]

The article referenced in the videos https://t.co/TneXg2aRjA

[Zach Wise @zlwise]

This past year, I've had students explore how AI can turn suburban newspaper journalism into niche content, delivered by AI TikTok personalities. Excited to share 4 unique AI-driven takes on the same article, showcasing our range! #AI #Journalism #TikTok @knightlab

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[Zach Wise @zlwise]

All of the examples use this article on rising tuition costs as the source material for a TikTok video. We created AI chatbot personalities and asked them to write us a voice script for a TikTok video.

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[Zach Wise @zlwise]

My students and I obviously have a lot of thoughts on the pros, cons and ethics of these examples and I hope to start sharing more of that soon. Maybe I'll share some of them from our Angry Grandma personality

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[Zach Wise @zlwise]

And just for fun, I made one in the style of David Attenborough narrating the article as if it were a nature documentary

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[Zach Wise @zlwise]

For some context, I'm running some projects in the @knightlab next quarter looking at automating the creation of editorial art for articles. https://t.co/MhJ9oQUjoV

[Zach Wise @zlwise]

Prompt-crafting is definitely a real thing. It's like learning to use a weird paintbrush made by robots from another dimension. #stablediffusion #aiselfie
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[Zach Wise @zlwise]

It feels like a design system, or paintbrush but magical. It's equal parts exciting and scary but trying to stop this would be pissing against a tidal wave. I'm gonna surf 🏄
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[Zach Wise @zlwise]

@drewvigal @StabilityAI @Poynter I shared some quick thoughts on my journey/research so far in this thread (illustrated of course). https://t.co/TF2Gu9h1eB Lots more to come!

[Zach Wise @zlwise]

Prompt-crafting is definitely a real thing. It's like learning to use a weird paintbrush made by robots from another dimension. #stablediffusion #aiselfie
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