News organizations reconsider ties to AI company Nota after plagiarism findings
The Boston Globe told staff to stop using Nota’s AI tools; other outlets say the company still lists them as clients after they walked away
In the week after Poynter published its investigation into extensive plagiarism found on a network of local news sites, the artificial intelligence company behind those sites lost a major client and fired the remaining contractor on the project.
Nota, which is known in the media industry for building AI-powered tools for newsrooms, had launched 11 of its own news sites in September in an effort to bring local coverage to “underserved” communities. But after Axios and Poynter found dozens of articles that copied the reporting, writing and photography of other journalists, the company closed the sites March 31.
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