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- Kolawole Samuel Adebayo: If you have access and if you can use a touchscreen phone, would you go back to a QWERTY phone? I don't think so. And on top of that, there's no running away from AI today. It's in our phones. It's in every... Like I use a transcriber for interviews. AI is there as well. So tell me, in a very crowded world now with so many stories and so many tech companies, what is separating some pitches from the rest? How are these stories getting your attention? What are some tips and tricks you can offer people to get around the noise? What I focus is on the impact, the impact on the company's ecosystem. Is it increasing productivity in a certain way? Is it revolutionizing something that has been never seen before? And that I'm always looking for that wow factor specifically. It's really important to have that impact on the subject of, in the email itself, right at the top so that it gives you an idea that. Hey, know, it's not just a matter of data coming from the company, but it is really something that is worth covering and keeping everything as aside. I saw a news story that came out from TechEU about a senior correspondent who had been suspended for using AI in his writing. And many of the quotes that were used were fabricated, like 15 out of 53. So what do you want to say to the issue of AI in journalism right now? The important part is to learn to work alongside AI. I think it can be a really, really powerful tool for, especially for, you know, journalists for researching, know, getting those cited reports and stuff like that, I use. mean, minor tweaks here, their editorial tweaks are acceptable, like literally generating is, I think that's like ⁓ serving your readers something false. something that's not real and not coming from an original perspective. So it's wrong in all ways.