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Business Insider will publish AI stories — without disclosure

pivot-to-ai.com Business Insider will publish AI stories — without disclosure

Business Insider had massive layoffs in May after search engine hits went down badly. But they’d fix it — with AI! On Thursday afternoon, editor-in-chief Jamie Heller sent out the memo specif…

‘It was the most perfect document I’ve ever sent’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDllBZSKs0o&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250919-business-insider-will-publish-ai-stories-without-disclosure - podcast

time: 4 min 46 sec

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Axel Springer also messed about with AI slop at Politico, leading to the union filing a dispute.
two_nickels.txt
[Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner] used to write books. But he’s got a machine doing it for him now, and he’s convinced you can’t write for yourself either. Even if it’s your job. Get with the programme!
Döpfner sounds like a genuinely dogshit writer if a text extruder managed to impress him
- Text extruder, I love that 🤣

With the AI summaries robbing media of clicks you've got a situation where both the writers and the readers of Business Insider are robots. Brilliant.
- is that this circular economy i hear so much about?

Business Insider so poop-tier, I tacitly assumed this was happening already