Business Insider Reportedly Tells Journalists They Can Use AI To Draft Stories (theverge.com)
(Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:27AM (msmash)
from the AI-slop dept.)
- Reference: 0179320094
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/17/1527231/business-insider-reportedly-tells-journalists-they-can-use-ai-to-draft-stories
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/779739/business-insider-ai-writing-stories
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Business Insider has told journalists they can [1]use AI to create first drafts of stories and suggested it won't notify readers that AI was used, according to Status, a newsletter covering the media industry. The policy makes the outlet one of the first to formally allow such extensive use of the technology.
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> The AI guidelines were reportedly circulated in an internal memo from editor-in-chief Jamie Heller on Thursday. The policy authorized journalists to deploy AI "like any other tool" for tasks like research and image editing, Status reported.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/779739/business-insider-ai-writing-stories
> Business Insider has told journalists they can [1]use AI to create first drafts of stories and suggested it won't notify readers that AI was used, according to Status, a newsletter covering the media industry. The policy makes the outlet one of the first to formally allow such extensive use of the technology.
>
> The AI guidelines were reportedly circulated in an internal memo from editor-in-chief Jamie Heller on Thursday. The policy authorized journalists to deploy AI "like any other tool" for tasks like research and image editing, Status reported.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/779739/business-insider-ai-writing-stories
AI is no problem but... (Score:3)
by Teun ( 17872 )
AI is for me no problem but some human needs to sign off on it.
There are plenty of cases where AI comes up with invented stories (hallucinations) and we need to be able to address a human when corrections are required.
Won't notify journalists, either (Score:2)
by John.Banister ( 1291556 ) *
I expect editors also won't notify journalists when that "freelance" article was done entirely by AI + editing.
Funny! (Score:2)
"won't notify readers that AI was used" the editors won't need to mention it.
Re: (Score:3)
> one of the first to formally allow such extensive use of the technology.
They (the industry) have been using it and haven't mentioned it, at least Business Insider is admitting it. Anyway putting "AI draft" on an article would result in less readers so its in their financial best interest to use this as much as possible and not admit it.