Enriching German News Articles with AI-Generated Content

Newspapers or magazines currently often publish articles in print or online in almost identical versions, maybe just adding links to related content or a user forum online. For further enriching the original article, we investigated methods to create different types of content automatically with state-of-the-art generative language models: (1) Keynotes, (2) a summary, and (3) a content-related quiz (i.e., a question with answers). Our study is based on 2.5k German articles from the Swiss daily newspaper ”Tages-Anzeiger”. Our evaluation with a professional editor showed that content generated by ChatGPT from OpenAI outperformed traditional NLP methods as well as human-generated content.