Earlier this year, at least six publications, including Wired, removed stories after it was discovered that the articles, allegedly written by a freelancer named “Margaux Blanchard,” were likely AI inventions. The suspected fraud was discovered only after Jacob Furedi, the editor of the independent publication Dispatch, received a suspicious pitch and began digging into the writer’s work. According to reporting from The Daily Beast, after the revelations, Business Insider quietly removed at least 34 essays under 13 different bylines.
This was a nice reminder for me to be a discerning online reader. Our systems and workflows have to update now that written words are so easy to produce. Link
