The Conundrum of Disclosing AI-Generated Content

Shocker: Articles written by robots carry a stigma. But not necessarily in the way you think.

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The cover-up is always worse than the crime.

The old adage has appeared to hold true in the new era of AI-generated content, with many publishers adopting guidelines for disclosing when generative AI wrote or contributed to an article. If you have robots working in your newsroom, tell the reader, the logic goes. If only CNET had adde…