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A local newspaper in Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake news anchors. Unsurprisingly, they're freaky.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Alarmed When Newspaper Replaces Humans With Glitchy AI Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A green reporter at Wyoming newspaper the Cody Enterprise resigned this month, after a competitor noticed awkward language in his articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes

By Frank Landymore

Northwestern Arkansas has a new local news site — and it's entirely AI-generated, complete with "AI reporters" and all.
Artificial Intelligence

This Entirely AI-Generated Local “News” Site Is Incredibly Depressing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Journalists at The Atlantic wrote a letter to their leadership addressing their concerns about the magazine's licensing deal with OpenAI.
OpenAI

The Atlantic’s Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Alt-weekly publications like LA Weekly and the Village Voice have suddenly started running hundreds of articles listing OnlyFans porn.
Artificial Intelligence

Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

CNN is firing 100 employees, or three percent of its overall work force. It says it's pivoting harder to video — and pushing "into AI."
Artificial Intelligence

CNN Firing 100 Employees Amid “Strategic Push Into AI”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The report by Reuters found that 52 percent of US audiences were uncomfortable with the heavy involvement of AI in producing the news.
Artificial Intelligence

Readers Absolutely Detest AI-Generated News Articles, Research Shows

By Frank Landymore

A Reuters report says that an AI tool used by the app NewsBreak has been publishing entirely made-up news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Popular News App Caught Publishing Completely Untrue AI Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Irish man sued Microsoft after MSN circulated an AI article falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct, per a New York Times investigation.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A news network is attributing AI-spun articles to fake authors with racially diverse names. Its publisher claims the names were unintentional.
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Should genAI be journalism's future, Semafor reports that partisan digital outlets, especially those on the far-right, might get frozen out.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Already Leaving Right Wing, Conservative Media Outlets In The Past

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The American newspaper giant and USA Today owner Gannett is using AI to generate a bulleted list of "Key Points" for news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Using AI to Generate Parts of Articles, Leaked Memo Shows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A report from Nieman Labs reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI in its newsroom.
Artificial Intelligence

Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If Seekr's AI algorithm is to be believed, The Messenger's reporting isn't all that reliable. Tough foot for a partnership to start on, no?
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI, "Deadspin Bot," has been resuscitated, and is now busy churning out stats.
Artificial Intelligence

Deadspin’s AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BuzzFeed's stock has been tumbling for months, and it appears that Buzzy the Robot may not be enough to save it from Nasdaq doom.
Artificial Intelligence

What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gannett promised that no AI content would be published to its vast network without direct human oversight. This isn't how things played out.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Promised to Be Super Responsible With AI Before Completely Bungling It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gizmodo's owner fired the site's Spanish translators to replace them with automated software. Surprise: the AI is already doing a bad job.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rather than simply scrub its many pages of Lede AI-generated content clean, Gannett is updating the articles to correct their many "errors."
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Updates Every AI-Generated Sports Article to Correct “Errors”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We spoke to a Gannett sports writer about high school sports coverage, why it matters, and what gets lost when you automate.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Sports Writer on Botched AI-Generated Sports Articles: “Embarrassing”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today and Many Other Newspapers Are Churning Out Terrible AI-Generated Sports Stories

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

A now-removed travel article published by Microsoft inexplicably recommended The Ottawa Food Bank as a "cannot miss!" tourist attraction.
Food

Microsoft Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Travel Guide That Recommended Visiting Food Bank With an “Empty Stomach”

By Frank Landymore