AI and Ethiopian journalism: Between promise and peril

According to Capital Ethiopia, There has been an overall transformation in Ethiopian newsrooms for both the cities and rural areas of Ethiopia. Now, journalists are using ChatGPT to take notes rather than just using traditional notebooks. Editors are using AI transcription technology to help turn audio from interviews in Amharic into English. Fact-checkers are using various online services to help determine if videos being shared across many different social media sites are manipulated as quickly as word of mouth spreads.