The newspaper's 20-odd journalists ask a version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to write a story on a specific subject in a specific tone, and it produces text using information scraped off the internet.
Examples this week included an analysis of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s speeches, an editorial on the recent phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and a fashion story.
Il Foglio’s director, Claudio Cerasa, explained the idea behind the project.
“The...