The robot byline is quietly disappearing

The rise of AI-assisted journalism is forcing newsrooms to rethink what a byline actually means.

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Pete Pachal is a journalist and the creator of Media Copilot, a newsletter and podcast that examines how AI is changing media, journalism, and the news.

The most obvious use of generative AI is writing. It’s right there in the name—large language models (LLMs) are all about reading, organizing, analyzing, and conjuring words—which is exactly why many in the journalism profession have been going through a kind of existential crisis these past few years.

And the crisis isn’t just theoretical. As artificial intelligence systems get better at writing, a growing number of newsrooms are using AI to help not just with analysis, process, and ideas, but the actual words, too. That’s leading to growing pushback from editorial teams, like when reporters at The........

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