I was scrolling through a local news site in Tampa and noticed the same weird, vague phrase in three different 'reporter' bios.

Checked their other articles and all three had that same overly polished, soulless tone that screams AI slop, which makes me wonder how many local outlets are quietly using this junk now.

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charles_cooper2mo ago

Heard a similar thing from a buddy who writes for a small paper upstate. He said his editor started feeding press releases into some AI tool and just slapping their byline on the output... no fact-checking, no real reporting. He quit over it last month.

umaf442mo ago

Seen this happen way beyond just journalism lately. Companies are using AI to make cheap, empty content for blogs and product pages too. It feels like we're getting flooded with words that don't mean anything and no one is even trying to check if they're true. Your buddy was right to walk away, because that stuff just makes people trust the news even less.

jake1911mo ago

Ever try to read a product page that feels like it was written by a robot? I was looking at a new coffee maker last week and the description was just repeating "brews perfect coffee" in six different ways. It's so lazy. I just close the tab when I see that stuff now.