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Europe Edition - Today's top story: AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it's a problem for all of us View in browser   Europe Edition | 28 May 2026 As an editor, coming up with new ways to say something is part of the fun of the job. It can be a brain teaser to avoid repetitive sentence structures, and we are constantly on the lookout for headlines that sound too similar. This is one reason why journalism has long been a field where new words, phrases and ways of speaking emerge. But in the age of AI, this may be declining. As more journalism (and text online more broadly) is written by generative AI models, a feedback loop emerges whereby AI-generated text is trained on itself, moving farther and farther away from the human influence that makes language interesting. Digital communication experts Xosé López-García and Cristian Augusto Gonzalez Arias explain how it works, and what it’s doing to the creativity, innovation and diversity within public language. London has been sweltering this week, with record-breaking temperatures and some very grumpy people on public transport. But if you think you’re hot, spare a thought for pregnant women. A heatwave can mean more than just discomfort for mums-to-be. A massive new study across 13 countries and 40 years of birth data finds climate change-related heat increases the risk of premature birth. Extreme heat is becoming more dangerous for millions of people, but not all in the same way. Whether someone faces “cooling poverty” has to do with whether the place they live has the physical and social infrastructure to cope. Avery Anapol Commissioning Editor, Politics + Society, London AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it’s a problem for all of us Xosé López-García, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; Cristian Augusto Gonzalez Arias, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela The press is an important platform for creating and spreading new linguistic forms. Cooling poverty is making extreme heat more dangerous for millions Antonella Mazzone, University of Bristol; Enrica De Cian, Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Giacomo Falchetta, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Some parts of the world are warming far faster than other, but even within the same city some neighbourhoods are exposed and suffer more than others. 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