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Legal issues related to artificially intelligent journalism

Artificial Intelligence(AI) technology, which attracts the most attention during the Fourth Industrial Revolution, has also been introduced in the field of journalism, transforming the media and journalists. AI is expected to transform our society by using it to produce and service news through various forms of new media platforms such as YouTube, social networking service (SNS) platform, as well as existing traditional media such as newspapers and broadcasting. AI journalism means writing articles by analyzing data through algorithms in order to reduce the cost of generating news by using less human labor, produce a large amount of high-quality articles with high accuracy, and increase the number of page views through the Internet portal. Since the early 2000s, AI has automatically produced relatively simple articles on price fluctuations of stock, weather, or sports on behalf of newspaper journalists. This is a method of automatically writing news by analyzing data according to the algorithm based on the data obtained by securities companies or media companies and the contents of existing media reports when data such as company s performance, finance and sports game results are inputted. As AI technology evolves, the scope of applying AI to journalism is expected to expand. In recent years, AI journalism has been extended to the concept of Augmented Newsroom, which means that AI technology is actively involved in all tasks in the editorial bureau, from article planning to news gathering, writing, editing, and publishing as well as comment management on article pages. The global market size of AI journalism was $280 million in 2014, but is expected to grow more than four times in seven years to $1,200 million in 2021. In addition, the potential market size of domestic AI journalism is expected to grow to about 23.4 billion won by 2021. However, despite many advantages of AI journalism, there are legal problems. Therefore, in this paper, I deal with legal issues related AI journalism as well as the concept of AI journalism and the current use of AI in journalism. The legal issues related AI journalism will be examined in order of copyright, fake news and advertising news, privacy, and defamation.