Gannett, the media company that owns hundreds of newspapers in the US, is launching a new program that adds AI-generated bullet points at the top of journalists’ stories, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge. The AI feature, labeled “key points” on stories, uses automated technology to create summaries that appear below a headline.
In October, Gannett staff at Reviewed, the company’s consumer products site, claimed that content that was appearing online was produced using AI. As I reported last year, the third-party marketing company that produced that work was also behind the Sports Illustrated AI controversy, where AI-generated authors were credited as writers. At the time, Gannett insisted that the product reviews were not created with AI tools.