Oh Google testing new technology artificial intelligence which can generate news in text form. Dubbed Genesis, the tool has been pitched to executives at major news outlets in the United States, including the New York Times, Washington Post and News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal.

According to the New York Times, Genesis is able to create an article based on the input provided by the user, be it current events or other types of information. Apparently, Google believes that journalists can use the tool as a kind of assistant to automate more mechanical tasks and free them up more time for activities that require greater scrutiny.

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Some of the people who saw the new feature’s introduction called it “disturbing,” especially since the AI ​​seemed unaware of the kind of work required to write accurate articles.

At The New York Times, Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at the City University of New York, said journalists should use the tool “[se] this technology can reliably provide factual information. As Google has yet to release Genesis, it is not yet possible to say whether the AI ​​can actually create believable texts or whether the tool will lead to the spread of misinformation.

So far, attempts by some publications to use AI tools to create journalistic content have encountered some problems. CNET, for example, had to make several corrections to most of the 77 AI-written articles published under CNET Money’s byline. Earlier this month, io9, a branch of Gizmodo, published an error-laden Star Wars article signed by Bot Gizmodo.

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