Good news, bad opinions: press coverage about ChatGPT in Portugal

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13037/ci.vol25.e20249691

Keywords:

Artificial Inteligence, CHATGPT, Sentiment analysis

Abstract

This paper analyzes 53 articles published in the Portuguese newspapers Público and Expresso about ChatGPT. The articles were categorized into opinion pieces and informative articles, and content analysis, sentiment analysis and a general polarity classification (positive, negative, or neutral) were applied to the texts. The results indicate a correlation between opinion pieces and feelings of anger and fear, suggesting that while news reporting views the phenomenon of generative artificial intelligence as either positive or neutral, commentators in these newspapers are hesitant towards the technology.

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Author Biography

Renato Essenfelder, Universidade Fernando Pessoa - Porto - Portugal

Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP, SP, Brasil), mestre em Língua Portuguesa pela PUC de São Paulo (SP, Brasil), especialista em Realização de Cinema e TV pela Escola Superior Artística do Porto (Porto, Portugal) e Bacharel em Jornalismo pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil).

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Published

2024-12-30

How to Cite

Essenfelder, R. (2024). Good news, bad opinions: press coverage about ChatGPT in Portugal. Comunicação & Inovação, 25, e20249691. https://doi.org/10.13037/ci.vol25.e20249691