Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI However, as I suggested above, speed has always informed the journalistic process. In fact, because of this need for speed, good journalism has always quickly adopted and then effec- tively leveraged great technology, including printing presses, cameras, tape recorders, TV networks, the internet, and smart- phones, all of which accelerated and amplified the production and distribution of news. Now it’s happening again. Overall, AI tools will help journalists work more productively and more effectively. 3 As for GPT-4’s capacity to hallucinate, journalists should obviously take special care regarding this aspect of GPT-4 and review its outputs accordingly. Powerful tools always require higher standards of attention and expertise, whether it’s cars, chainsaws, or complex algorithms. It’s the price these tools charge for the productivity they deliver. Besides, with the ongoing rapid evolution of LLMs, in a year or two, the rates at which they generate hallucinations are likely to be much lower than they are now. In the meantime, given how GPT-4 can potentially amplify news organizations’ overall productivity, I believe the vigilance required to manage GPT-4’s (undeniable) current shortcom- ings is a smart investment for them to make. In fact, journal- ism’s long-established culture of verification and correction are perfectly suited to the task. Question authoritatively In one of the first prompts I entered when I started research- ing this chapter, I asked GPT-4 to “summarize some of the 3 Discussed at length in “When AI Makes Things Up (“Hallucinations”)” 82