Press Gazette launches AI content detection tool for prepublication checks
Made by Humans checks text, images, audio and video for synthetic manipulation before editors publish.

Made by Humans checks text, images, audio and video for synthetic manipulation before editors publish.

Journalists and open-source experts say AI manipulation, shrinking access to footage and rising costs are making visual verification harder.

USA Today Co. is reorganizing its audience operation as The New York Times creates a role focused on AI and off-platform discovery.

Arbiter, an AI tool from nonprofit SimPPL, is being tested to track emerging disinformation narratives.

OpenAI is providing more than 400 ChatGPT Edu subscriptions to interested graduate students and faculty at two journalism schools.
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Footballco says its AI assistant Goal-e helped Goal grow World Cup users 42% and lift affiliate revenue past $12.6m in early 2026.

Microsoft told a federal judge that 59,545 of 8.2 million Copilot chat logs shared at least 16 words with plaintiff news content.

The Seattle Times, Newsday, Wikihow and Argentina's Editorial Perfil have all sued OpenAI, pushing the number of publisher cases past a dozen.

The government says a ruling against OpenAI could threaten national security and put smaller publishers at a disadvantage.

Hacker Noon and Information Age removed articles after Press Gazette asked publishers to verify four prolific tech and finance contributors.
