{"id":9250,"date":"2026-03-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/manager-associated-resistance-ai-futile\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:00:00","slug":"manager-associated-resistance-ai-futile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/manager-associated-resistance-ai-futile\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One senior figure at the Associated Press <\/em>appears to have caught a terminal case of tech CEO brain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to new reporting<\/a> by Semafor, <\/em>the news wire\u2019s product manager for AI strategy Aimee Rinehart embraced her inner \u201cStar Trek\u201d villain by bluntly telling her stuck-in-the-past, pencil-pushing grunts that resistance to AI is \u201cfutile.\u201d Reporters, not heeding her warning, rebelled anyway.<\/p>\n

The internal controversy played out as AP <\/em>staffers discussed how the Cleveland paper The Plain Dealer <\/em>embraced using an \u201cAI rewrite specialist<\/a>\u201d to turn reporters\u2019 field notes into full-blown articles. The paper\u2019s editor had lamented how an intern pulled out of a reporting fellowship after discovering that the position required feeding notes into an AI writing tool instead of writing stories.<\/p>\n

Though the editor\u2019s complaints earned widespread public ridicule, Rinehart sympathized with efforts to heavily integrate AI into newsrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause local newsrooms are so strapped, they are turning for assistance on the news making process in every direction,\u201d Rinehart wrote in a company Slack message. \u201cAdvance Publications got there first, others will follow,\u201d she added, referring to the Plain Dealer\u2019s <\/em>publisher. \u201cResistance is futile.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spinning a yarn, Rinehart also claimed that some editors told her that they would \u201cprefer to have reporters report and have articles at least pre-written by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many \u2014 and I mean MANY \u2014 editors who would prefer an AI-written article to a human-written one,\u201d she wrote. \u201cReporting and writing are two different skill sets and rare \u2014 RARE \u2014 is the occasion when it\u2019s wrapped into one person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her proclamations sparked dissent among staffers.<\/p>\n

One AP <\/em>reporter fumed that the\u00a0\u201cdismissiveness and disdain some of you have shown for human writing are insulting and abhorrent,\u201d per Semafor<\/em>. \u201cStrong reporting and clear writing are the lifeblood of journalism, not AI-written slop.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAI may be inevitable,\u201d the reporter continued, \u201cbut denigrating the work of colleagues who write for a living without whom there would be no AP<\/em>, is disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another staffer said it is \u201chard not to escape the feeling that the people hyping\/guiding the decisions around these powerful tools exist in a totally different reality than the people who wake up every day and do the work of reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The internal strife comes as news organizations experiment with AI<\/a>, despite it remaining controversial with rank and file journalists, and frequently causing mistakes.<\/p>\n

In December, The Washington Post<\/em> launched an AI-generated podcast feature<\/a> for summarizing a personalized curation of the paper\u2019s latest stories to users. Prone to hallucinating like any other AI tech, the podcasts turned out to be riddled with factual errors<\/a> like fabricated quotes, along with editorializing on developing stories. Readers mocked the initiative, and WaPo<\/em> staffers rebelled against management, blasting the AI launch as a \u201cdisaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, a senior Ars Technica <\/em>reporter was caught accidentally using AI-fabricated quotes<\/a> in an article, forcing the publication to issue a retraction in an incident that went viral.<\/p>\n

The reporter, Benj Edwards, was a seasoned tech journalist who was well aware of the technology\u2019s risk, but let his guard down while using an AI to summarize his notes while trying to finish an article with a fever, he claimed. When the AI erroneously generated a made-up quote based on the real remarks the source made in an interview, it went unnoticed, underscoring how the tech\u2019s introduction can lull even veterans into a false sense of security and lead to outright fabrications. Edwards was terminated by Ars<\/em><\/a> following the incident.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Semafor<\/em>, the AP <\/em>stated that the \u201cinternal discussion among staffers from different departments doesn\u2019t reflect the overall position of the AP regarding the use of AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been an industry leader in setting AI standards that safeguard the vital role of journalists,\u201d the statement continued, \u201cwhile also allowing for AI use for things like language translation, summarizations, transcriptions and content tagging.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> Jack Dorsey Isn\u2019t Telling the Real Story About Block\u2019s AI Layoffs, Insider Says<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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