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Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines
Artificial Intelligence

Leak Reveals the New York Times Experimented With Using AI to Write Headlines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.
Artificial Intelligence

The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry
Artificial Intelligence

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A digital paper was revived from the media graveyard — only to have its archived news articles re-attributed to fake writers.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Startled to Discover His Byline Has Been Replaced by Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal
Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is paying publishers to test an AI tool that generates news — by reportedly gobbling up and regurgitating already-published news.
Google

Google Quietly Paying Journalists to Generate Articles Using Unreleased AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This week, Google's News tab suddenly disappeared from Search. Backdrop that with layoffs and AI, and behold: fresh media industry anguish.
Future Society

Amid Brutal Media Layoffs, Google “Tests” Deleting News Tab

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ex-Googler Jim Albrecht argues that generative AI is the "wolf" coming for the media industry. Unfortunately, he's probably right.
Google

Former Google News Director Admits Big Tech Is Killing Journalism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sports Illustrated owner The Arena Group has laid off 100 employees, the latest blow to the media organization following its AI scandal.
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Publisher Laying Off Staff After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET owner Red Ventures is reportedly having a tough time finding a buyer for the website —  and CNET's AI scandal bears some of the blame.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI-generated article about a murder that never happened in New Jersey has police and local news outlets in a tizzy.
Artificial Intelligence

Police Say AI-Generated Article About Local Murder Is “Entirely” Made Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new poll found that 80 percent of Americans think presenting AI content as human-made should be illegal.
Artificial Intelligence

80 Percent of Americans Think Presenting AI Content as Human-Made Should Be Illegal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Business Insider and Politico owner Axel Springer has announced a "global partnership" with ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
OpenAI

Business Insider’s Parent Company Signs Deal With OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

The human members of the Sports Illustrated Union have made their feelings about the Arena Group's fake writer-penned content clear.
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Union Says It’s “Horrified” by Publication of AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MSN aggregated a seemingly AI-generated article about the recent death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter, which has now been taken down.
Artificial Intelligence

MSN Deletes Plagiarized, Incoherent AI Articles, Then Continues Cranking Out More

By Victor Tangermann

On our review, almost every single word of the A.V. Club's AI-generated articles appears to be copied directly from IMDb.
Artificial Intelligence

The A.V. Club’s AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb

By Frank Landymore and Jon Christian

After replacing its human writers with a translation AI, G/O stripped Gizmodo Español of all bylines — including those of its laid-off staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Columbus Dispatch has paused AI efforts after its sports writing AI started publishing awful articles about local high school match-ups.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown reiterated the company was committed to AI articles despite "external commentary.
Artificial Intelligence

G/O Tells Staff Not to Worry About Everyone Mocking Their Horrible AI Content

By Victor Tangermann

Annoyed users of the World of Warcraft Reddit decided to trick an AI-written website scraping their content into writing about "Glorbo."
Artificial Intelligence

Redditors Invented a Fake Word and an AI Site Published an Article Thinking It Was Real

By Frank Landymore

Google is secretly demoing an artificial intelligence tool that can produce news stories and showing it off to major newspapers.
Google

Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator

By Victor Tangermann

After a disastrous toe-dipping into AI, the owner of Gizmodo is doubling down and pledging to publish even more bot-written content. 
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Owner Vows to Keep Publishing AI-Generated Articles After Error-Filled Debut

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.
Google

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Io9 Staff Horrified as Site Publishes Error-Filled AI Generated Garbage
Artificial Intelligence

Io9 Staff Horrified as Site Publishes Error-Filled AI Generated Garbage

By Frank Landymore

In an all-hands meeting, Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias laid out an expansive plan for the publisher's AI-driven future.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Parent Company Preparing to Kickstart the AI Content Engine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Axel Springer-owned German tabloid Bild is to replace over a hundred editorial roles with AI, according to a leaked email.
Artificial Intelligence

Major Publishing House to Replace Hundreds of Jobs With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Behold: Botatouille, business genius and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's new recipe-suggesting chatbot. Just one issue...
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they've named AI — and the lived impact that AI initiatives have on human life and work — as a concern.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use “Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Irish Times just apologized for publishing an AI-generated hoax article — bylined by an entirely fake AI-generated "journalist," no less.
Artificial Intelligence

Newspaper Apologizes for Accidentally Running Deranged AI-Generated Article

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech investing publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI's Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles, Bloomberg reports.
Artificial Intelligence

VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pro-tip for editors: do not, under any circumstance, publish an AI-generated "interview" with someone you didn't actually interview.
Artificial Intelligence

Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just a week after urging its writers to incorporate AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflow, Insider has laid off 10 percent of its staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Insider has given its reporters the green light to use OpenAI's ChatGPT for its reporting. That green light, however, came with a laundry list of warnings.
OpenAI

Major News Site Warns ChatGPT Is Inaccurate, Announces Plans to Use It Anyway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — which is becoming a big problem for the journalism industry.
OpenAI

Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published

By Victor Tangermann

Every reporter's worst nightmare came to life for one Ecuadorian journalist when he plugged a USB device into his computer and it exploded in the newsroom.
Robots and Machines

Journalist Gets USB Drive, Turns Out to Be a Bomb That Explodes When He Plugs It In

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "world's first" entirely AI-generated news channel is here, claiming to be the antidote to biased news. It's called NewsGPT, and we hate it.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Launches News Site That’s Completely Generated by AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just weeks after pressing pause on publishing AI-generated content, CNET owner Red Ventures appears poised to greenlight its AI program once again.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Owner Preparing to Restart Publishing AI-Generated Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Any and all CNET stories about AI are marked with a very odd editor's note that lets readers know that elsewhere on the site, AI is writing articles.
Artificial Intelligence

After Scandal, CNET Adds Strange Disclaimer to Human-Written Articles About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

By Jon Christian

This afternoon, the New York Times published an article making a surprising claim about exobiology: that watermelons had been discovered on Mars.
Mars

New York Times Publishes Then Deletes Article Claiming Watermelons Were Found on Mars

By Jon Christian

Over the weekend, Microsoft laid off some 77 journalists and editors who helped curate the news and replaced them with an AI algorithm.
Artificial Intelligence

MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI

By Dan Robitzski

All American journalists working for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Washington Post have been expelled from China.
Future Society

China Bans Journalists From Major US Newspapers

By Victor Tangermann

This Virtual Library in Minecraft Gives a Voice to Censored Journalists
Future Society

This Virtual Library in Minecraft Gives a Voice to Censored Journalists

By Natalie Coleman

A tabloid called Express publishes at least one article about killer asteroids almost every single day. Futurism investigates!
Science & Energy

This Awful Tabloid Predicts a Killer Asteroid Almost Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft just created a new AI system that can scan a news column and pull out the most important facts for quicker reading.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s New Neural Network Summarizes the News — Erratically

By Dan Robitzski

This Startup Is Trying To Fix Journalism By Putting It On the Blockchain
Blockchain

This Startup Is Trying To Fix Journalism By Putting It On the Blockchain

By Victor Tangermann

There Are Better Ways To Serve Journalism Than To Rank Outlets By “Trustworthiness”
Future Society

There Are Better Ways To Serve Journalism Than To Rank Outlets By “Trustworthiness”

By Dan Robitzski

A New AI “Journalist” Is Rewriting the News to Remove Bias
Artificial Intelligence

A New AI “Journalist” Is Rewriting the News to Remove Bias

By Kristin Houser

journalism robots automation
Artificial Intelligence

Not Human: Major News Outlets Are Using AI to Cover the 2016 Elections

By Jelor Gallego

The Washington Post is Using AI to Write Stories During the Rio Olympics
Artificial Intelligence

The Washington Post is Using AI to Write Stories During the Rio Olympics

By Patrick Caughill

The Robot Journalist Called Wordsmith Will Soon Be Available to All
Artificial Intelligence

The Robot Journalist Called Wordsmith Will Soon Be Available to All

By Miguel Santos