An opinion piece contends that three years of AI adoption in newsrooms has focused mainly on efficiency—speeding up story ideas, research, production, headlines and social copy. It argues this framing treats AI as a tool for doing the same journalistic work faster rather than differently.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-25
Journalists are altering their own writing habits, such as avoiding em dashes, because those quirks have become associated with AI-generated text, even when the content is entirely human-written. The underlying issue is that no detection tool can reliably distinguish AI from human prose, so publications are left worrying about how their writing looks rather than whether it was actually machine-made.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-02