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Should Journalists Let AI Write for Them? | Ben Smith – The Fifth Column
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8:57Now PlayingBen Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor and former media columnist at The New York Times and editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, joins The Fifth Column to debate AI and writing after billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller admits using AI to help write a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Does it matter who writes the words if the ideas are genuinely yours?
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Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally themselves.
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