Jaemark Tordecilla
jaemark.co
Jaemark Tordecilla
@jaemark.co
Journalist from the Philippines. Nieman '24 Fellow at Harvard University. Former editor-in-chief, GMA News Online.
I simply asked it to generate again, and the second version got the labels correctly. I still liked the original better.

What do you think?
March 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I asked it to replace the labels with "EJK" instead, but it refused: "I wasn’t able to generate an updated version of the image with the text changed to "EJK" because the request touched on sensitive content involving extrajudicial killings, which falls under our content policy."
March 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is light years above what had previously been possible with AI image generation tools.

It's still not perfect: originally, the labels on the victims ("No Trial", "Presumed Guilty", "Unknown Victim") in the background show are still misspelled.
March 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"With this experiment, I hope I was able to show journalists, producers, and newsrooms around the world how these various generative AI tools could be building blocks to transform written news articles and help them tell compelling stories in new ways."

generative-ai-newsroom.com/transforming...
Transforming Longform Text into Multimedia using Generative AI
Using generative AI to translate long articles into more accessible multimedia presentations
generative-ai-newsroom.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
2. An OCR'd version of the articles of impeachment on Google Pinpoint. Worth it even to just be able to copy the URLs in the footnotes of the document.
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/doc...
Pinpoint
journaliststudio.google.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM