Current Affairs says it's banning AI

Link: Why We’re Banning AI, by Nathan J. Robinson in Current AffairsThe headline here is a bit of a misnomer. Current Affairs stresses that it’s not against technical innovation, but:“[…] we need, first, to ensure that technologies are a tool used by workers to help them, rather than a tool used to replace workers. And, second, we need to make sure that readers aren’t being fed things that look like people’s genuine thoughts and creative expression but are in fact the product of disembodied mathematical formulas.”The result is something that seems entirely reasonable to me: journalists are free to use AI in the course of their work, but may not write or illustrate their pieces with it. This ensures that they remain in control of the work published under their bylines, while allowing them to take advantage of automation when it can serve their process.The side effects entirely benefit Current Affairs. Readers can trust that the work they read is produced by real people who have applied…