Sunday, February 22, 2026

ZDF And AI-Training?

 I sat this AM and read through a piece.....management at ZDF (the public TV folks) have decided the scandal has reached a level where 'training' is required.

So all journalists are being signed up and to be given training.   What type?  Unknown.

My German wife asked me about training for AI about a year ago....which I  found a business-news service which offered a basic intro course.  It was enough to convince her to be firmly anti-AI in the end. (I'm not sure this was the right course for her)

What'll happen to the ZDF folks after the training?  That's the primary question I'm wondering about.

The present mentality with their particular journalists...is mostly to construct a news piece which urges you to take a position, feel a passion about, or simply to generate emotion.  AI was a tool in that process....which you have to identify it as official-AI if you still intend to use it in the news process.

The funny thing?  Well....whoever ZDF hired to provide training....might actually be a AI-manager, and AI itself might be 'teaching' or instructing.

Me?  If I were running the network....I'd hire AI to oversee all news pieces and 'warn' if AI-processes or AI-images or AI-video or AI-fake-people were built into the newscast.

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