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Composer AI Assistant

Arc XP is introducing a collaborative AI Assistant, which will help journalists meet editorial standards by identifying gaps in metadata and ensuring adherence to style guides.

Context

The AI Assistant will automatically analyze the story when the user saves and give the user feedback on the set of requirements and standards their editorial organization has set up. This allows customers to ensure that stories are in a better state BEFORE an in-depth review of content so they can spend more time focusing on improving storytelling than general editorial tasks.

Note

Access to AI Assistant is controlled via Roles and Permissions

Metadata Review with AI Assistant

The AI Assistant will update a subset of fields in Composer automatically. This will respect the fields that are enabled or disabled as well as any customizations on prompts that already exist in Arc intelligence. These automatic modifications will only be made in additive ways or if the fields are empty upon save.

For example: If SEO keywords is not used in Composer, SEO keywords won’t be generated and if there are customizations to the Headlines prompt in Arc Intelligence Settings, the AI Assistance will refer to those instructions

Available metadata the AI Assistant will interact with

  • Working headline

  • Tags

  • Description

  • SEO Keywords

Related Content, Featured Media and Vector Search with AI Assistant

The AI Assistant is also powered by vector search capabilities that can surface and add related content automatically to the story. This will work in the following sections in Composer:

  • Related stories

  • Featured Media

When the AI Assistant is run, it will automatically add up to five related stories based off of relevance and 1 Basic featured media item. If either of these exist or are at the max threshold the AI Assistant will not replace human added content.

For example: Only customers leveraging the Advanced AI Package will have Related Items and Featured Media changes from the AI Assistant Available to them.

Style Guide Suggestions

The AI Assistant will also provide suggestions on the story body through Comments. Upon save, the AI Assistant will review the body against your style guide rules and provide:

  • Context for why a piece of text does not meet style guide standards

  • Suggestions a an author can accept or reject in applying changes

  • General spelling and grammar feedback

Customizing your Style Guide with AI Assistant

Style guide evaluation is based on a new prompt that occurs against the story body

  • This is a new prompt that can be customized to each customers specific needs

  • We will build an OOTB prompt that evaluates generic standards but customers can provide their own instructions in the prompt

  • This is only interacting with text based elements in this phase.

How will the AI Assistant interact with a story?

The AI Assistant will be run on save and interact on stories in two different ways:

  • Automatically applied data

  • Suggestions that require a human to accept or reject

Note

Any feedback or changes left by the AI Assistant will be highlighted in the UI so authors can easily see where changes were made or feedback was given. None of the automatic changes will persist or change the story until the user saves explicitly. Suggestions that are not acted upon will not persist after save and would have to be run again in order to provide a new analysis.

Automatically applied data

These will only be applied automatically if any of this data is not currently filled out or if it doesn’t meet standards that are defined in the prompts. We will not overwrite any human created data, only add to existing data. On save, the AI Assistant will evaluate the fields and if additions are needed it will show an indicator on the field being modified so the user can see that the AI is working on a particular area.

  • Working Headline

  • Tags

  • Description

  • SEO Keywords

  • Related Stories

  • Featured Media

Suggestions with Human Review

Style guide suggestions will be placed as comments in the story body, none of the feedback the AI Assistant will change the story body until a user expressly takes action to accept or reject.

If a user does not act on suggestions provided and hits save, the suggestions will not be persisted. Any new style guide suggestions would be added the next time the AI Assistant analyzes the story.

How often will the AI Assistant run?

The AI Assistant is triggered on save but has a cooldown and content thresholds built in so we don’t needlessly make calls on content that hasn’t changed or subsequent saves in a short period of time.

For example: If an author has headlines, related items, and featured media filled out then the AI Assistant will not modify those fields. But if a customer set up in their Tags prompt that they always want to ensure there are 7 tags associated and the user only had 3, then the AI Assistant will add 4 more tags that the user can then review.

How can I customize what the AI Assistant evaluates?

While we don’t have an explicit settings page for the AI Assistant available yet, it will defer to the prompts that exist in Arc Intelligence and the fields that are enabled or disabled from Composer Settings.

For example: If SEO keywords is not used in Composer, SEO keywords won’t be generated and if there are customizations to the Headlines prompt in Arc Intelligence Settings, the AI Assistance will refer to those instructions.

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