Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?
A raft of articles have been retracted from publications including Business Insider and Wired in recent months, with links between them suggesting a possible broader scheme to pass off fake stories that these outlets now suspect were written using artificial intelligence.
A Washington Post probe into the retractions found a connection between Onyeka Nwelue, the purported author of one of 38 essays removed this week by Business Insider, and someone using the name Margaux Blanchard, two of whose stories were previously removed by the same outlet. In recent months SFGate, Index on Censorship and Wired also retracted articles under the Blanchard byline, after it was identified as bogus by the British publication Press Gazette.
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