Determine presentation subjects or content
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Producing the draft is the single thing current models are best at, and it needs no integration at all: a prompt and a couple of reference documents are enough. A person still edits it and takes responsibility for what goes out.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Drafting and content production |
| Jobs that do it | 10 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Generalist agents, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Thinking Creatively (4.A.2.b.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 10 occupations that perform it.
- Choose settings and locations for films and determine how scenes will be shot in these settings.
- Plan and schedule programming and event coverage, based on broadcast length, time availability, and other factors, such as community needs, ratings data, and viewer demographics.
- Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.
- Consider such factors as ensemble size and abilities, availability of scores, and the need for musical variety, to select music to be performed.
- Develop story lines for broadcasts.
- Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members.
- Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.
- Select photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts to illustrate material.
- Choose subject matter and suitable form to express personal feelings and experiences or ideas, or to narrate stories or events.
- Select and combine the most effective shots of each scene to form a logical and smoothly running story.
- Select plays, scripts, books, news content, or ideas to be produced.
- Evaluate new and existing programming to assess suitability and the need for changes, using information such as audience surveys and feedback.
- Select program content, in conjunction with producers and assistants, based on factors such as program specialties, audience tastes, or requests from the public.
- Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.
- Select local, state, national, and international news items received from wire services, based on assessment of items' significance and interest value.
- Determine the specific audio and visual effects and music necessary to complete films.
- Develop ideas for programs and features that a station could produce.
- Determine a published or broadcasted story's emphasis, length, and format, organizing material accordingly.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for drafting and content production, and what it costs.
Drafting needs no tools, no integration and no platform. One $20 assistant and two reference documents beat any agent builder here, and every extra thing in this stack is cost with nothing behind it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Generalist agents
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
10 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Develop news, entertainment, or artistic content”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Analyze information obtained from news sources | 1 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.