The Cylon Problem and Informational Power (opens in new tab)

In April, McClatchy, the newspaper chain that owns the Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, introduced an AI-powered “content scaling agent” (CSA). While AI summaries are now ubiquitous, McClatchy’s tool went a step further: It takes journalists’ original reporting (and even in some cases, reporters’ notes), reshapes them into new formats and targeted summaries, then publishes them as new, separate articles just as if they were written by fellow staff writers. If it were up to McClatchy, CSA-...