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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The piece was filed by Marco Buscaglia, who told 404 Media, “I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first. This time, I did not and I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses. On me 100 percent and I'm completely embarrassed.” He added, “This is just idiotic of me, really embarrassed. When I found it [online], it was almost surreal to see.”

Seems like a reasonable response, but not believable. This was being lazy and putting too much trust in a shortcut. Consequences need to exist, harsh ones, to keep this from occurring more and more.

The Chicago Sun-Times released a brief statement on the matter via social media in response to author Chuck Wendig: “We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak. It is not editorial content and was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom.”

Another lie. From their Union. (https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1krimtw/chicago_suntimes_union_response_to_ai_slop_content/):

I hope you all know we are equally as disgusted and angry about this — and it isn’t lost on us that this comes just months after 20% of our newsroom was lost to buyouts.

They need editorial staff. It was a syndicated peice, not from their Union newsroom, that apparently nobody is staffed to review.