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Forbes' Czech edition built two AI tools with support from Google's News Initiative: one that suggests articles to readers based on what they have been reading, and another that helps the editorial team by automatically analyzing traffic data and suggesting headline ideas. Both tools are designed to help a small team publish more effectively — not to replace journalists.
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The AI recommendation tool analyzes reader behavior to suggest similar articles and increased page views per visit by approximately 20–25% in its first month of operation. The AI editorial tool automates the processing of analytics data and generates headline suggestions based on patterns from high-performing past articles. It supports approximately 40 journalists publishing around 12 articles per day. Forbes.CZ Chief Product Officer Andrea Steiner noted that the AI recommendation system outperformed editors' own manual content picks in terms of engagement metrics. The tools were built using Google Analytics, Google Trends, Google Dataset Search, and TensorFlow — an open-source machine learning library.
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Other practices by Forbes
OtherForbes has taken steps to stop AI companies from using its articles to train their AI systems without permission. It has blocked AI web crawlers from its site, sent a legal cease-and-desist to Perplexity AI after it republished a Forbes exclusive using AI, and joined a group of 14 publishers in a federal copyright lawsuit against AI startup Cohere for allegedly using thousands of Forbes articles without authorization.OtherIn July 2025, Forbes created a new internal group called the AI & Strategic Platforms Group to lead its AI strategy and revenue development. CEO Sherry Phillips also announced that Forbes is developing an "AI Manifesto" — a written framework setting out the company's stance on how AI should be used, what ethical limits apply, and how risks will be managed. As of August 2025, the manifesto had not yet been published.Creative GenA study published in late 2025 found that roughly 15% of all articles published on Forbes Business Council in 2024 were likely written by AI, not humans. Forbes Councils is a paid membership platform where business executives publish their own content — it operates under different editorial oversight than Forbes' core journalism. The study's authors also successfully submitted and published a fully AI-generated article on Forbes Technology Council in July 2025.
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