British state media looking to develop its own AI — RT World News
The BBC has revealed plans to build and train its own artificial intelligence model to support its production process
The BBC has announced that it is making plans to create its own artificial intelligence model based on its vast text archives, in the hope that the technology will help improve the production process.
Earlier this month, BBC country director Rhodri Davies told a House of Lords committee that the broadcaster was considering developing an artificial intelligence programme, but was still deliberating over whether it would be developed unilaterally or in partnership with another company.
On Thursday, another company spokesperson confirmed the plans in a statement reported by Reuters, saying the BBC was already looking to use 80 years' worth of audio, video and text content to train the programme.
However, the broadcaster has confirmed that the output of this model will not be shared with any third party and will only be used internally.
However, the Financial Times, citing sources within the organisation, reported that the BBC was in negotiations about selling access to its large library to external companies to help them develop their own language models.
The BBC denied these allegations, saying: “It has no agreement with any organization to use its archive to train its large language models that power generative AI tools for commercial use.”
The company's statement comes as a number of large media organizations have already accepted lucrative deals to sell their newspaper archives to the likes of OpenAI to help train their AI programmes.
In another statement issued last month, the BBC also said that it had already trialled the use of artificial intelligence in its newsroom, but had put in place certain rules to ensure that anything published would remain subject to human censorship.
For example, the broadcaster said it used artificial intelligence to come up with article summaries and story headline recommendations. However, the BBC stressed that the final decision on what to publish still rests with journalists.
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