How to Break Into Journalism: an AI Scam Story
A story in The Local reveals how AI writing is infiltrating newsrooms, flooding inboxes, and snagging bylines in major outlets.
Is the rise of the AI journalist inevitable or is it already here?
Jay Caspian Kang of the New Yorker joins to consider if a chatbot could write his column.
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Host: James Nicholson
Credits: Jules Bugiel (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), max collins (Director of Audio & Fact Checking), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Jay Caspian Kang
Additional music by Audio Network
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