> Artificial intelligence tools are used within a structured and supervised workflow as research and drafting instruments.

This has become the highbrow way of admitting that AI is writing the articles: Calling it “drafting” is another way of saying that the article was written by AI and the person publishing it maybe reviewed it. Maybe they skimmed it and published it directly.

For what it’s worth the article felt obviously AI heavy to my first read.

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pessimizer 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Calling it “drafting” is another way of saying that the article was written by AI and the person publishing it maybe reviewed it.

I don't think that's a safe assumption. You could construct an article pretty quickly if you had a topic, a few points to hit, a conclusion and a short list of links, then fed that to the machine. All the LLM would be doing is fluffing it up with worthless words, unnecessary metaphors and maybe a pop culture reference or two so it looks like what people expect from an "article."

"Rewrite this as a slate dot com article"

If it were an email newsletter instead, there wouldn't be that fluffy expectation and you could just leave the bullet points and links as they were.

	▲	Aurornis 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I don't think that's a safe assumption. You could construct an article pretty quickly if you had a topic, a few points to hit, a conclusion and a short list of links, then fed that to the machine. All the LLM would be doing is fluffing it up with worthless words, unnecessary metaphors and maybe a pop culture reference or two so it looks like what people expect from an "article." We’re not disagreeing? That’s basically what I said: The AI wrote the article. Saying it drafted the article is a way of admitting it was written by AI but making it sound like it was actually a journalistic endeavor.