ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHINESE JOURNALISM: BETWEEN TOOL AND THREAT

Abstract

The article examines the ways in which technology is used by journalists in China. The task of the study is to identify algorithms for working with artificial intelligence and identify specific AI programs and individual functions that contribute to the creation of journalistic materials, as well as to determine the attitude of editorial staff of the Chinese media to various aspects of the development of machine learning programs. The study is based on a standardized questionnaire compiled by the authors and filled out by 2,500 respondents. The collected answers allow to determine how often journalists resort to AI, what worries they associate with them, what kind of options they consider insufficiently effective, and whether they believe in the reality of gradually replacing people with machines in the media system.