Short on reporters, a Vermont newspaper turns to AI

For as long as he has owned the Randolph-based White River Valley Herald, Editor and Publisher Tim Calabro has had trouble getting reporters to cover local select board meetings. Usually held at night, they can be long and boring. Most of the paper's paid correspondents and volunteers would rather write about something else.

But public meeting coverage is a big part of local news. Looking for a way to provide it to readers, Calabro decided last year to try using artificial intelligence, or AI. Urged on by his brother-in-law, a New York State engineer who had been investigating AI models, Calabro downloaded a set of meeting minutes and fed it into ChatGPT.

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