Google shows off AI "news article" writer to newspapers, leaving newspapers to wonder who did the fact-finding, investigating and reporting

Google showed off an AI tool for writing news articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. It pitched the AI as a 'helpmate,' reports the Times [archive]. The tool, known internally by the working title Genesis, can take in information — details of current events, for example — and generate news content, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the product. One of the three people familiar with the product said that Google believed it could serve as a...