Letter from Rome
Since Tuesday, March 18, a strange supplement has accompanied in Italian kiosks every paper edition of the Milanese liberal daily Il Foglio. No article in the twenties published there every morning has an author. All are preceded by the mention: “Text made with AI (Artificial Intelligence)”. More human names, more signatures, but, between the lines, the shadow of an invisible anonymous machine capable of moving from an analysis of the discourse of the chairman of the council, Giorgia Meloni, to the financial results of Tesla via the reports of various European artistic exhibitions.
Every morning, we can thus hold in his hands the intriguing, even disturbing object, that constitutes a newspaper without journalist. “The idea is to pass artificial intelligence from the gas state to the solid state! To be able to touch it, make it tangible! »»,, explains the director ofIl FoglioClaudio Cerasa, 42, since 2015 since 2015 of this singular opinion journal, an editorial object classified rather to the right without lacking in pluralism since 2015. Proudly appearing a European flag on its every day, Il Foglio claims to be a certain irreverent verve, assuming from time to time some access of dandyism.
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Source: Lemonde