OpenAI said on Wednesday it will hold an "AI Journalism Hackathon" with the Korea Press Foundation, the Korean Association for Journalism and Communication Studies and Slownews on Dec. 12 at the Korea Press Foundation's Media Education Center in Jung-gu, Seoul.

The event is a hands-on training programme in which journalists use ChatGPT to solve problems in the reporting and production process and to create articles or work tools themselves.

Applicants must be employed at news organisations. It will recruit 60 people in 20 teams of three. Reporters from different news organisations can also form teams. Applications will be accepted through the KPF Media Academy website until Nov. 20.

In the morning, OpenAI engineers and working journalists will present examples of AI use. The programme will cover ways to apply AI to reporting tasks such as analysing court rulings, National Assembly audit transcripts and corporate disclosures, monitoring articles, preparing interviews and organising transcripts.

In the afternoon, participants will choose topics by team and produce AI-based articles or work tools, with mentoring from experts. Outputs will be evaluated based on criteria including journalism value, the appropriateness of AI use and completeness.

Participation is free, and all participants will receive a one-month ChatGPT Pro 100 pass. Each member of the top prize-winning team will receive a six-month pass, and the excellence prize-winning and popularity prize-winning teams will each receive a three-month pass.