USA Today writers accuse site of using AI article with fake bylines

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Several unknown writers began churning out suspicious articles for the USA Today-owned website Reviewed. Employees of the media outlet suspect USA Today of using AI to create articles because it doesn’t appear that many of the writers even exist.

Reviewed is a website that provides shopping recommendations, and may also earn a commission for products purchased from the site.

Jaime Carrillo – a senior staff writer at Reviewed – noticed that there were articles promoting products that were extremely vague. Carrillo and his coworkers suspected that the articles were created with artificial intelligence.

The USA Today employees also noticed that they had never heard of the writers behind these odd articles. After searches on Google and LinkedIn, there was allegedly no evidence that the authors even existed.

Carrillo said the mysterious reviews started appearing just weeks after staff…

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