i hope people keep saying pro-cancer, anti-ai things in prestige publications. i know they think it and i want as many receipts as i can get
The Atlantic
Emma Pierson could directly benefit if AI cured cancer. Yet, she writes, as a professor of AI who was once mentored by Anthropic’s co-founder, she’s rooting for AI progress to slow down.
Jun 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM
AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed
AI is rapidly transforming journalism, but the extent of its use in published newspaper articles remains unclear. We address this gap by auditing a large-scale dataset of 186K articles from online editions of 1.5K American newspapers published in the summer of 2025. Using Pangram, a state-of-the-art AI detector, we discover that approximately 9% of newly-published articles are either partially or fully AI-generated. This AI use is unevenly distributed, appearing more frequently in smaller, local outlets, in specific topics such as weather and technology, and within certain ownership groups. We also analyze 45K opinion pieces from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, finding that they are 6.4 times more likely to contain AI-generated content than news articles from the same publications, with many AI-flagged op-eds authored by prominent public figures. Despite this prevalence, we find that AI use is rarely disclosed: a manual audit of 100 AI-flagged articles found only five disclosures of AI use. Overall, our audit highlights the immediate need for greater transparency and updated editorial standards regarding the use of AI in journalism to maintain public trust.
AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed
AI is rapidly transforming journalism, but the extent of its use in published newspaper articles remains unclear. We address this gap by auditing a large-scale dataset of 186K articles from online editions of 1.5K American newspapers published in the summer of 2025. Using Pangram, a state-of-the-art AI detector, we discover that approximately 9% of newly-published articles are either partially or fully AI-generated. This AI use is unevenly distributed, appearing more frequently in smaller, local outlets, in specific topics such as weather and technology, and within certain ownership groups. We also analyze 45K opinion pieces from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, finding that they are 6.4 times more likely to contain AI-generated content than news articles from the same publications, with many AI-flagged op-eds authored by prominent public figures. Despite this prevalence, we find that AI use is rarely disclosed: a manual audit of 100 AI-flagged articles found only five disclosures of AI use. Overall, our audit highlights the immediate need for greater transparency and updated editorial standards regarding the use of AI in journalism to maintain public trust.
70 years of AI hype
Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."
i hope people keep saying pro-cancer, anti-ai things in prestige publications. i know they think it and i want as many receipts as i can get
The Atlantic
Emma Pierson could directly benefit if AI cured cancer. Yet, she writes, as a professor of AI who was once mentored by Anthropic’s co-founder, she’s rooting for AI progress to slow down.
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" axios.com/2025/04/22/ai-anthropic-virtu…
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
www.axios.comI do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" axios.com/2025/04/22/ai-anthropic-virtu…
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
www.axios.comAI* and the law/legal filings
Re: fake citations and the like, not laws regulating AI * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* industry/tech oligarchs
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* and creative writing
To differentiate from e.g. news articles and legal filings. * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* and science journals/academic fraud
I should’ve made this its own collection sooner * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* and advertising
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI* and healthcare/medicine
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI*-powered news/journalism
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Collection of collections: AI
Based on the articles I’ve saved, I think you can see why I have a more negative view of AI (and the role they’re playing in society thus far) than a positive one, generally speaking. But again, I don’t consider myself “pro-AI” or “anti-AI.”
AI*-generated copyright infringement
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Heated Rivalry is at the Center of Fanfic’s AI Reckoning
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like
Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
Lawyers Caught Citing AI-Hallucinated Cases Call It a 'Cautionary Tale'
Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
AI influencers are ‘everywhere’ at Coachella
Brands Adopt ‘No AI’ Disclaimers to Stand Out Amid the Slop
Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain…
Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI
Absolutely incredible figure from this journal article arguing that AI should be accepted into the publication and peer review process.…
未査読論文リポジトリのarXivが「論文にLLMによる間違いや架空の引用が含まれていたら1年間投稿禁止」の方針を示す
anil oza (@aniloza.bsky.social)
Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers
Exclusive: New York Times tests out AI-generated search summaries
An Update On How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (It’s Still Not Writing Articles)
Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
Copy of Digital Masquerade
Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
[Récap] Nous avons découvert des milliers de sites d’info générés par IA : tous nos articles
Doctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warns
It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs
AI can detect heart disease in women using mammograms, study suggests
consultations.tga.gov.au
Doctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugs
AI creates first synthetic viruses
AI* and creative writing (by あ) — Semble
AI* discourse (by あ) — Semble
AI* transcription (by あ) — Semble
General discussions about AI* regulation (by あ) — Semble
AI* alignment/misalignment (by あ) — Semble
AI* laws/regulations/safety standards (by あ) — Semble
People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
Bing Is Generating Images of SpongeBob Doing 9/11
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content
