After a Rocky Year, Newsrooms Push Deeper Into AI

When Business Insider learned in August that two freelance pieces it published under the byline “Margaux Blanchard” appeared to be written by AI, the site removed them, saying the first-person essays didn’t meet its standards.

But last month, Business Insider began publishing AI-generated stories carrying the byline Business Insider AI News Desk, a sign of automation’s increasing role in news production at a time when thousands of jobs are being cut. Editor-in-Chief Jamie Heller told...