Exploring Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News Across Four Countries
As generative artificial intelligence increasingly permeates most life domains, studying how the public perceives, uses, and understands AI-driven tools becomes crucial. Especially relying on generative AI for news seeking, information acquisition, and political opinion formation warrants attention...
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| author | Eliza Mitova Sina Blassnig Edina Strikovic Aleksandra Urman Aniko Hannak Claes de Vreese Frank Esser |
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As generative artificial intelligence increasingly permeates most life domains, studying how the public perceives, uses, and understands AI-driven tools becomes crucial. Especially relying on generative AI for news seeking, information acquisition, and political opinion formation warrants attention from a democratic point of view. Therefore, we conduct a standardized survey of public assessments toward GenAI for news-related purposes, its adoption by news organizations, and how these attitudes relate to a series of individual-level characteristics across four countries (CH, DE, JP, US). Our findings indicate that audiences do not (yet) extensively use GenAI for news-related purposes and possess relatively limited AI knowledge despite acknowledging various risks and benefits. Cross-nationally, trust in the journalistic deployment of AI-powered tools is relatively low. However, assessments vary depending on individual-level characteristics and macro-level contexts. We conclude by discussing our findings' implications for building and maintaining trust between journalism and its audience.
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| spelling | doaj-art-bf399f4141614ef489e31d99e1eb2ec42025-08-20T03:36:44ZengHOPEJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media2673-88132025-08-01510.51685/jqd.2025.012Exploring Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News Across Four CountriesEliza Mitova0Sina Blassnig1Edina Strikovic2Aleksandra Urman3Aniko Hannak4Claes de Vreese5Frank Esser6Department of Communication and Media Research, University of ZurichUniversité de Fribourg | Fachhochschule Graubünden (FHGR)Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of AmsterdamDepartment of Informatics, University of ZurichDepartment of Informatics, University of ZurichAmsterdam School of Communication Research, University of AmsterdamDepartment of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich As generative artificial intelligence increasingly permeates most life domains, studying how the public perceives, uses, and understands AI-driven tools becomes crucial. Especially relying on generative AI for news seeking, information acquisition, and political opinion formation warrants attention from a democratic point of view. Therefore, we conduct a standardized survey of public assessments toward GenAI for news-related purposes, its adoption by news organizations, and how these attitudes relate to a series of individual-level characteristics across four countries (CH, DE, JP, US). Our findings indicate that audiences do not (yet) extensively use GenAI for news-related purposes and possess relatively limited AI knowledge despite acknowledging various risks and benefits. Cross-nationally, trust in the journalistic deployment of AI-powered tools is relatively low. However, assessments vary depending on individual-level characteristics and macro-level contexts. We conclude by discussing our findings' implications for building and maintaining trust between journalism and its audience. https://journalqd.org/article/view/8720artificial intelligencesurvey datauser attitudesdigital journalismcomparative research |
| spellingShingle | Eliza Mitova Sina Blassnig Edina Strikovic Aleksandra Urman Aniko Hannak Claes de Vreese Frank Esser Exploring Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News Across Four Countries Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media artificial intelligence survey data user attitudes digital journalism comparative research |
| title | Exploring Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News Across Four Countries |
| title_full | Exploring Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News Across Four Countries |
| title_fullStr | Exploring Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News Across Four Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News Across Four Countries |
| title_short | Exploring Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News Across Four Countries |
| title_sort | exploring public attitudes toward generative ai for news across four countries |
| topic | artificial intelligence survey data user attitudes digital journalism comparative research |
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