BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 16.
Artificial intelligence (AI) can replace translators and editors in
newsrooms, the Press Council member Mushfig Alasgarli said at the
9th Congress of Azerbaijani Journalists in Baku on Friday, Trend’s correspondent
reports from the event.
According to him, the jobs of translators, editors, and
proofreaders in editorial offices, as well as those whose daily
work consists solely of publishing press releases on a website, are
at risk.
He noted that one should think about how to improve the state of
the media and journalism.
"Creativity is considered the raw material for artificial
intelligence. If journalists lack creativity, there will be no raw
material for AI. It is these creative individuals who produce the
raw material that AI relies upon; the two are directly linked. In
the coming years, the number of such individuals within Azerbaijani
journalism and media will grow, and I am confident that creativity,
creative journalism, will ultimately prevail over AI," he
added.
The 9th Congress of Azerbaijani Journalists is being held at the
Rashid Behbudov Song Theatre.
