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As the news media continues its often-disastrous pivot towards generative artificial intelligence, the most prominent publication yet has jumped on board: the Washington Post, it turns out, has quietly been building an…
USA Today is publishing automated sports stories that serve as SEO-targeted vehicles for sports gambling ads, toeing ethical lines and blurring the boundaries between sports journalism and the rapidly growing sports…
G/O Media is once again attempting to use AI to churn out content — while simultaneously warning that anything the AI produces might be littered with mistakes. As first reported…
Wrong Turn Top newspaper The Wall Street Journal is testing AI-generated summaries of its articles, The Verge reports, in the latest sign of the technology’s inroads into the media industry.…
Back in June, The New York Times published a fascinating investigation by its award-winning tech reporter Kashmir Hill about how automakers and various apps are secretly selling data about your driving…
Trust or Bust A new report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has found that a majority of news consumers are suspicious of AI being used to…
NewsBroken NewsBreak — the most downloaded news app in the US — has been publishing made-up news articles generated by AI, a Reuters investigation reveals. The app, helmed by CEO Jeff Zheng,…
A national network of local news sites called Hoodline is using fake authors with fictional and pointedly racially diverse names to byline AI-generated articles. The outlet’s publisher claims it’s doing so…
Key Points The American newspaper giant Gannett is using AI to generate parts of its articles, The Verge reports. A leaked memo reviewed by the Verge reveals that the media conglomerate…
Old Dog, New Tricks Reporting from Nieman Lab reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI extensively in its newsroom. Per Nieman, Newsweek first updated its editorial standards to…