On November 2nd, according to the media, The Decoder todayUSAA MAJOR STUDY AT MARYLAND UNIVERSITY SHOWS THAT ABOUT 9% IN THE UNITED STATES HAS NEWLY PUBLISHED NEWSPAPER ARTICLESAt least partially byAIParticipation in writingIn most cases, this was not explained to the reader。
1AI learned from the report that more than 250,000 articles from three data sets were tested by the research team using Pangram AI detector; the study reported that the detector had been tested for news contentTHE ERROR RATE IS ONLY 0.001%.
THE PENETRATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NEWS INDUSTRY IS UNEVEN. LOCAL NEWSPAPERS USE MORE OF THEIR OWN WRITING TOOLS AND THERE ARE RELATIVELY FEW NATIONAL MEDIA. OF THE LARGE NEWSPAPERS WITH A CIRCULATION OF MORE THAN 100,000, ONLY 1.7% WAS FOUND TO BE CO-AUTHORS OF AI OR HUMAN MACHINES, COMPARED TO 9.3% IN SMALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS。
THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CANTONS. IN THE STATES OF MARYLAND, TENNESSEE AND ALABAMA, AI HAD THE HIGHEST RATES OF 16.51 TP3T, 13.61 TP3T AND 13.91 TP3T, RESPECTIVELY, WHILE IN THE NORTH-EASTERN STATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MASSACHUSETTS, AI GENERATED ONLY 2.91 TP3T AND 3.41 TP3T。
AI IS MAINLY USED IN DATA-INTENSIVE SECTIONS。Weather coverageTHE MOST EASILY AUTOMATED, PROBABILITY 277%Science and TechnologyFOR 16.1%, THE HEALTH PAGE IS 11.7%; AUTOMATED COVERAGE ON SENSITIVE TOPICS SUCH AS WAR OR CRIMINAL JUSTICE IS SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER, AT 4.3% AND 5.2%, RESPECTIVELY。
MEDIA GROUPS HAVE DIFFERENT ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TOWARDS AI
The ownership of newspapers affects AI usage. The number of AI articles in Boone Newsspaces exceeds 20%, while the large links of Nash Holdings, Lee Enterprises and Digital First limit AI to 2%。
THE STUDY ALSO NOTED THAT SEVERAL LARGE MEDIA GROUPS WERE PROSECUTING AI MANUFACTURERS FOR TAKING NEWS TEXTS FOR TRAINING MODELS WHILE THEIR PRESS ROOMS WERE PUBLISHING AI-GENERATED CONTENT IN A LOW-PROFILE MANNER。
THE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN THE USE OF AI IN NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS IS PARTICULARLY EVIDENT. AN ANALYSIS OF 45,000 EDITORIALS AND REVIEWS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST AND WALL STREET JOURNAL FROM 2022 TO 2025 SHOWS THAT AI PARTICIPATION RATESJUMP FROM 0.1% TO 3.4%25 times more。
IN THESE MEDIA, IT IS 6.4 TIMES MORE LIKELY THAN IN THE ORDINARY NEWS THAT COMMENTS WILL APPEAR. VISITING CONTRIBUTORS, INCLUDING POLITICIANS, NOBEL LAUREATES AND BUSINESS EXECUTIVES, USE AI MORE FREQUENTLY THAN NEWSPAPER REPORTERS。
Serious lack of transparency
OF THE 100 ARTICLES MARKED AS AI, ONLY 5 INFORMED THE READER OF AI PARTICIPATION AT THE END OF THE TEXT OR IN THE NOTES. ONLY 7 OUT OF 100 NEWSPAPERS INTERVIEWED ALLOWED AI TO GENERATE CONTENT IN A PUBLIC EDITING CODE。
Even the media that explicitly forbids AI is not without problems. The New York Post and the Michigan Journal publicly banned AI, but still published reports that Pangram had been found to be AI-generated。
AI's applications range from fully automated weather to the reader's question and answer column “Dear Annie” written by AI. The media, Argonaut, was found to have produced the entire newspaper by AI, and the so-called journalist is a fiction。
THE PERCENTAGE OF SENIOR JOURNALISTS USING AI HAS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY
Long-term follow-up with ten senior journalists shows that the use of AI has increased dramatically since ChatGPT emerged: These reporters in 2025AN AVERAGE OF 401 TP3T REPORTS WAS USED BY AIONE JOURNALIST RAISED THE AI GENERATION RATIO TO 90% IN TWO YEARS. RESEARCH FOUND THAT AI WROTE ARTICLESThe amount of information is usually small, the time is vague and the language is more formalThis was not disclosed by any journalist。
THE STUDY RECOMMENDED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE RIGOROUS PUBLIC GUIDELINES: ALLOWING FOR NON-DISCLOSURE GRAMMATICAL CHECKS, DISCLOSURE OF ABSTRACTS AS APPROPRIATE, BUT PROHIBITING THE ENTIRE ARTICLE FROM BEING AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY AI; AND ENFORCING THE USE OF AI FOR COMMENTS-TYPE ARTICLES, AS WELL AS MORE RIGOROUS SCRUTINY OF GUEST MANUSCRIPTS。