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Wired and Business Insider remove ‘AI-written’ freelance articles. Index on Censorship believes article it published by 'Margaux Blanchard' was generated by AI.


Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

He received a pitch from Blanchard at the start of August in which she offered a reported piece about “Gravemont, a decommissioned mining town in rural Colorado that has been repurposed into one of the world’s most secretive training grounds for death investigation”. He added: “Especially at a time when people are making cuts left, right and centre in this industry, and reportage is largely viewed as a luxury in legacy outlets, it tends to be op-eds that are staying and long-form deeply reported features are first for the chop. It meant people under potentially fake names were being quoted uncritically by major news outlets on areas on which they had no actual expertise, ultimately netting a name-check and even sometimes a link for the brand they were associated with (valuable for SEO purposes).

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