Reality checks with Brian Reitz features BuzzStream's Vince Nero, covering U.S. AI news summary consumption habits, delving into trust, adoption, and behaviors.
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.
AI in journalism: Live tracker of scandals and mistakes
AI in journalism: Live tracker of mistakes and mishaps from the Mississippe Free Press to the New York Times.
AI Policy • States Newsroom
AI Policy States Newsroom is, above all, dedicated to journalism practiced by people. We believe in the power of having on-the-ground reporters covering our communities with the finesse and nuance that only human interaction can produce. We also recognize the power and potential of generative AI. We are open to the responsible and transparent use […]
An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortune’s web traffic in the second half of 2025. Most are written by Nick Lichtenberg.
Report: AI Use in Newspapers Is Widespread, Uneven… | Maryland Today
UMD Computer Scientists, Private Firms Examine News and Opinion Pages in U.S. Media
AI Tools for Trust: Community Notes, Rhetoric Detection & More
Five AI technologies to combat misinformation: community notes, rhetoric detection, reliability tracking, epistemic evals, and provenance tracing.
AI News Audit: AI, Canadian Journalism, and Paths for Policy Action — Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
March 16, 2026 - AI companies built their products using Canadian journalism without permission and without compensation, and are now delivering that journalism to consumers as their own product. Existing copyright and media policy frameworks were not designed to address this. In February and Marc
The AI Trust Gap: 82% Are Skeptical, Yet Only 8% Always Check Sources
Original Exploding Topics survey data explores public sentiment on AI Overviews and AI-generated content, highlighting trust, skepticism, and shifting content consumption habits.
Business Insider
Business Insider sees AI as a valuable tool. Newsroom staff may employ approved AI tools to assist with drafting, transcription, research, data analysis, fact-checking, and more. There is always human oversight when our journalists use AI, and they are responsible for the accuracy, fairness, originality, and overall quality of everything we publish. We also use AI for some automated products without human oversight, such as our search tool and audio briefing. We transparently label any products or content fully generated by AI. The technology, industry standards, and the law around AI are all evolving, and our thinking on this may evolve over time.
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena
<p>Download the pdf here. Executive Summary Despite growing interest, the effects of AI on the news industry and our information environment — the public arena — remain poorly understood. Insufficient attention has also been paid to the implications of the news industry’s dependence on technology companies for AI. Drawing on 134 interviews with news workers […]</p>
AI is now unpopular. That may not make a difference.
Use of AI to Get News in U.S. Is Rare
Fewer than one in 10 Americans use artificial intelligence tools to get news and information.
AI-Summarized News Articles: Readers Want Clear, Reliable Sources
A survey in Japan found that readers of AI-summarized articles on an app felt that having clearly cited sources was the most important factor in assessing reliability.
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
