This summer, the Chicago Sun-Times published an AI-generated “summer reading list” filled with books that didn’t exist. Here in Toronto, independent publication The Grind was forced to postpone an issue after they took a chance on some new writers and were inundated with “scammers trying to pawn off AI-generated stories about fictional places and... See more

an ecosystem uniquely susceptible to fraud—where publications with prestigious names publish rickety journalism under their brands, where fact-checkers have been axed and editors are overworked, where technology has made falsifying pitches and entire articles trivially easy, and where decades of devaluing journalism as simply more “content” have... See more