Bucharest, Nov 15 /Agerpres/ – The “Aplicatţia AI – Stirile Agerpres” (AI Application – Agerpres News), which uses Artificial Intelligence to deliver quality news, was launched during an event at the Palace of Parliament on Friday.
The innovative project, developed in collaboration with the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest), aims to ensure the authenticity and origin of information, promoting quality journalism and protecting the public from the risks of disinformation, by integrating blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
“The AI – Agerpres News application is a pilot project. It is an application we intend to use as a partner, an assistant that can bring you news from a validated feed of the AGERPRES National News Agency. We want to open this project to everyone who generates news and wants their content to appear in a feed that can be accessed online, that can be ‘read’ by Artificial Intelligence. Next week, we hope to expand this project with a regionalisation aspect, so that, depending on the area of interest, the application can be accessed. We want to be as applied as possible and as close as possible to the information zone, day by day,” ICI Bucharest Director General Victor Vevera told the launch conference.
The ICI Bucharest official stressed that the new application was created out of the need to access a feed of quality news.
In turn, AGERPRES National News Agency Director General Claudia Nicolae explained that the “short news” format emerged to appeal to young people.
“Certainly, this was also the success of social media. The very fast pace there is sustained by the reader. This product we are trying to launch today has already been implemented by European agencies. We all realised that the world no longer has the patience to read a long news article. The process of summarising is very important, and that is what this application does. It uses news created by AGERPRES journalists, transforms it into a contextual summary so that something can be understood. We are talking here about a platform that will help us reach our target audience, the young one, just like the idea behind the NFT project,” said Claudia Nicolae.
The project manager for the “AI – Agerpres News” application, Valerian Vreme, explained how the new news application works.
“We are witnessing a significant step that Romania is taking. There is a lot of discussion about integrating AI into various activities. This project does nothing but generate a news feed. Thus, Artificial Intelligence comes, collects today’s news from the AGERPRES feed, transforms it into short news, and then turns the text file into an audio file. The voices that ‘read’ the news are generated by Artificial Intelligence. Once this batch of news, seven, eight, or ten minute long, is finished, another platform comes into play, with a professional ‘DJ’ who, depending on the time of day and the audience to whom it is addressed, generates a certain type of music,” explained the former minister of Communications.
The new “AI – Agerpres News” application complements another pilot project, “Agerpres Daily News | Hold History,” which was carried out earlier and demonstrated the potential of advanced technologies in combating disinformation and promoting quality journalism.
Additionally, the pilot project showed how innovative technologies can contribute to improving the news verification process, offering a safe solution for archiving and accessing information transparently and efficiently.
