How to Break Into Journalism: an AI Scam Story
CANADALAND5 Joulu 2025

How to Break Into Journalism: an AI Scam Story

A story in The Local reveals how AI writing is infiltrating newsrooms, flooding inboxes, and snagging bylines in major outlets.


Is the rise of the AI journalist inevitable or is it already here?


Jay Caspian Kang of the New Yorker joins to consider if a chatbot could write his column.


This episode uses generative AI for the following purposes: Episode tile art


Host: James Nicholson

Credits: Jules Bugiel (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), max collins (Director of Audio & Fact Checking), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Jay Caspian Kang

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