The Wall Street Journal is testing AI article summaries

The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with AI-originated article summaries that ecombine at the top of its novels stories. The summaries ecombine as a “Key Points” box with bullets summarizing the piece. The Verge spotted the test on a story about Trump’s set ups for the Department of Education, and the Journal verifyed it’s trialing the feature to see how readers reply.

The “Key Points” box has a message elucidateing that an “man-made inalertigence tool originated this summary” and that the summary was verifyed by an editor. The box also points to a page about how the WSJ and Dow Jones Newswires participate AI tools.

“We are always appraiseing novel technologies and methods of storyalerting to supply more appreciate to our subscribers,” Taneth Evans, head of digital at the WSJ, says in a statement to The Verge. “To that finish, we are currently running a series of A/B tests to understand our participaters’ demands with think abouts to summarization. The novelsroom does this hand-in-hand with colleagues in technology and while speaking with readers at every step of the way. We also disshut how we leverage man-made inalertigence tools to help our journalism whenever it’s participated.”