The quiet death of the AI byline
Newsrooms are backing away from robot bylines, and the reasons matter. Plus: OpenAI’s copyright win, QVC hosts unionize, and Substack scans for AI writing.
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The AI byline was supposed to be journalism’s cleanest answer to the disclosure problem: label the machine’s work and let readers decide. It turns out newsrooms are heading the other direction, retiring robot bylines even as AI writes more of the news than ever, and this week’s column digs into the three forces behind the retreat and what they mean for …
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