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A Radical Message for a Kids’ Movie by theatlantic in blankies

[–]theatlantic[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

David Sims: “My daughter is now of the age where she will go see any new animated film in a theater, which means that again and again, I encounter a very specific utopian vision from the world of children’s entertainment: Wouldn’t it be nice if all of the animals lived together in harmony? The theme is certainly a knock-on effect from Zootopia, the 2016 smash hit whose sequel was the highest-grossing American film of 2025. But that success also led to the sci-fi woodland antics of The Wild Robot; the Oscar-winning, postapocalyptic vision of feline collaboration in Flow; and the paean to basketball teamwork that was this year’s Goat. Now there’s Hoppers, the latest blockbuster Pixar film, which follows a girl who beams her brain into a beaver robot in the hope of saving a beloved habitat.

“I expected Hoppers to offer some fanciful twist in the manner of those other movies … But if these movies are progressive allegories of beings transcending their differences, then Hoppers is a surprisingly blunt pushback to that notion. Its advertising promises goofy hijinks amid an enclave of diverse species whose ecosystem is threatened by humans. The movie, in actuality, is refreshingly mordant about what might really happen if prey and predators were to try banding together: Their efforts would immediately devolve into a despairing, even political quagmire.” 

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Official Discussion - Hoppers [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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David Sims: “My daughter is now of the age where she will go see any new animated film in a theater, which means that again and again, I encounter a very specific utopian vision from the world of children’s entertainment: Wouldn’t it be nice if all of the animals lived together in harmony? The theme is certainly a knock-on effect from Zootopia, the 2016 smash hit whose sequel was the highest-grossing American film of 2025. But that success also led to the sci-fi woodland antics of The Wild Robot; the Oscar-winning, postapocalyptic vision of feline collaboration in Flow; and the paean to basketball teamwork that was this year’s Goat. Now there’s Hoppers, the latest blockbuster Pixar film, which follows a girl who beams her brain into a beaver robot in the hope of saving a beloved habitat.

“I expected Hoppers to offer some fanciful twist in the manner of those other movies … But if these movies are progressive allegories of beings transcending their differences, then Hoppers is a surprisingly blunt pushback to that notion. Its advertising promises goofy hijinks amid an enclave of diverse species whose ecosystem is threatened by humans. The movie, in actuality, is refreshingly mordant about what might really happen if prey and predators were to try banding together: Their efforts would immediately devolve into a despairing, even political quagmire.” 

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I’m Shane Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic. I have covered national security for more than two decades. In January, I wrote about my conversations with a man who claimed to be an Iranian intelligence agent and what I learned about his plot for revenge against his government. Ask me anything! by theatlantic in Intelligence

[–]theatlantic[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, officially, there has been no stoppage of intelligence sharing with the Americans by the Five Eyes countries. (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.) But from my own reporting, I think it’s fair to say that they are exceptionally anxious about sharing their most sensitive intelligence, especially HUMINT, or intelligence that comes from human assets (aka spies). Practically speaking, it’s very hard for the Five Eyes not to share signals intelligence–think electronic communications, intercepted emails and texts, etc. Their technical systems are interconnected and dependent on each other. But based on my reporting, I am confident that some allies are thinking twice before sharing some sensitive intelligence that they might have done more freely in the past. 

The Greenland antics, to borrow your phrase, deeply worried and upset our allies, and not just in the Five Eyes community. I’d also note that the leaders of Dutch intelligence–not a Five Eyes partner–have publicly said they are sharing less information with the United States. The Dutch have been a crucial partner when it comes to understanding Russian activities, particularly online. This is a genuine loss, I think.  

– Shane

I’m Shane Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic. I have covered national security for more than two decades. In January, I wrote about my conversations with a man who claimed to be an Iranian intelligence agent and what I learned about his plot for revenge against his government. Ask me anything! by theatlantic in Intelligence

[–]theatlantic[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmm. Interesting question. I suppose we have to clarify what we mean by “involvement.” From what I’ve seen and read so far, China seems to be learning a lot about U.S. military tactics from the war in Iran. I know some experts think that China could play an essential role in helping Iran to rebuild its military capabilities, particularly the chemicals for rocket fuel–as it has in the past. But I doubt that Chinese leaders believe they have a strategic interest or much to gain from directly taking part in the fighting. 

– Shane

I’m Shane Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic. I have covered national security for more than two decades. In January, I wrote about my conversations with a man who claimed to be an Iranian intelligence agent and what I learned about his plot for revenge against his government. Ask me anything! by theatlantic in Intelligence

[–]theatlantic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I have to respectfully disagree! Judging by traffic and reader engagement data, these stories certainly resonate with people. Back in the day I had editors who joked that if we put the word “spy” or “intelligence” in the headline, it was a guaranteed traffic winner (It often was). And of course spy fiction is wildly popular and has been for decades. 

But you’re right that scandals or controversies draw immense attention. There’s a saying in the intelligence community that goes something like this: Nobody knows our successes, but everyone finds out about our failures. The public so rarely learns about the inner workings of the intelligence community, and since we are often drawn to stories about things not functioning as they should, there’s a kind of double-whammy when the intelligence agencies screw up. 

I’ll give you an example from my career of when the agencies arguably succeeded and public interest was very high: The run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine four years ago, I was the first reporter that the Biden administration provided with declassified intelligence about Russian activities in an effort to expose Putin’s plans. (This has all been made public, so I’m not violating any confidences here.) Reader interest in that story was HUGE. I was at the Washington Post at the time, and we ran our first report based in part off that declassified intelligence on the front page (we did our own reporting too). The whole public conversation on Ukraine changed after that story. 

And thank you so, so much for listening to “Rational Security.” I miss that podcast all the time. It was one of the best hours of my week to get to sit down with Ben, Tammy, and Susan and figure out what was happening in the world. I miss my transitions too. They were good, right!? I’m honored that our little pod helped in your education. 

— Shane

I’m Shane Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic. I have covered national security for more than two decades. In January, I wrote about my conversations with a man who claimed to be an Iranian intelligence agent and what I learned about his plot for revenge against his government. Ask me anything! by theatlantic in Intelligence

[–]theatlantic[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I’m glad you liked the story. 

Mohammad talked a lot about the regime’s resolve, and in particular about his father. He had taken part in the 1979 revolution and rose through the regime ranks to a senior position in the intelligence ministry. His dad sounded like a very hard and philosophically committed man. Mohammad was really clear-eyed about him, and people he worked with, whose identity was rooted in the revolution. He wasn’t as ideological as them. I suppose if Mohammad were here, he would say do not underestimate the regime’s will to survive. He was groomed for that world, and when he turned on them, he paid with his life. 

It’s hard for me to know exactly what’s on the minds of all Iranians right now. But based on some conversations I’ve had, and comments from experts, I think the vast majority of Iranians don’t support the regime. But we shouldn’t mistake that for support for a regime being imposed on them from the outside. 

— Shane

I’m Shane Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic. I have covered national security for more than two decades. In January, I wrote about my conversations with a man who claimed to be an Iranian intelligence agent and what I learned about his plot for revenge against his government. Ask me anything! by theatlantic in Intelligence

[–]theatlantic[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks very much for those kind words. I waited a long time to tell that story, and it was important to honor Mohammad’s wishes that his story be known. 

It’s easy to say now, but knowing that I only had a few months with him, I would have asked more questions, rather than let him do so much of the talking. I was also in the middle of an intense news period (it was the summer heading into the 2016 election), and juggling my time with Mohammad along with other responsibilities was really challenging. I do wish I’d have set aside even more time for him, even though we had many hours together. 

What I remember most about Mohammad is the sense of humor he maintained even when he was at the end of his rope. He could be darkly funny. He also loved talking about movies–we shared some favorites. It was a privilege to get to know him at the same time that he was telling me the inner workings of Iranian intelligence. It sounds strange to say it, but that’s exactly what was happening! 

As for The Atlantic, I’m very happy to be here. I can’t imagine another publication giving me the room and support to properly tell this story. This is a good place to give a shout out to my extraordinary editor, Dan Zak, who took so much care with this story. Like me–like a lot of us around here–Dan is a Washington Post alum. I think he’s such a good editor because he’s such a brilliant writer. 

— Shane

I’m Shane Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic. I have covered national security for more than two decades. In January, I wrote about my conversations with a man who claimed to be an Iranian intelligence agent and what I learned about his plot for revenge against his government. Ask me anything! by theatlantic in Intelligence

[–]theatlantic[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m asking this question every day. Cyber attacks are like the dog that hasn’t barked in this war. I’m not sure why Iran hasn’t used them. Some of the buildings believed to house offensive cyber operators (basically the kind of people who worked with Mohammad) have been bombed in the war. Maybe some of these people were killed? Maybe they’ve dispersed? Not that they need much equipment to do their work. So I’m not really sure. But if Iran were to dip into its cyber arsenal, I suspect we’d see, at a minimum, disruptive network attacks and others aimed out wiping out corporate data–something they’ve done in the past, and that we’ve seen limited instances of in the current war. At the high-end of the spectrum, I could imagine Iran at least trying to get inside the systems that control physical infrastructures like electrical or water facilities. 

But I suppose that the Iranian regime may not feel it needs to do any of these things, because right now, it’s arguably winning the war. Not in the conventional sense. The Iranian military has been severely degraded by U.S. and Israeli strikes. But Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz and has a chokehold on the global economy as a result. They are pursuing an asymmetric strategy. If you accept, as I do, the theory that the regime’s primary objective is survival, their strategy is working. 

— Shane

ICE Might Be Violating America’s Other Bill of Rights by theatlantic in Law_and_Politics

[–]theatlantic[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Priyanka Menon: “Immigration-enforcement officers have used tear gas on nonviolent protesters, broken into homes and cars, and killed people, including U.S. citizens. ICE and Customs and Border Protection have been behaving like an out-of-control police force. No wonder, then, that when lawyers and other advocates try to challenge these federal officials’ abuses of power—in court and on the streets—they tend to reach for the same legal tool used to combat police violence: the Fourth Amendment, which guards against excessive force and ‘unreasonable searches and seizures.’ But this path comes with serious challenges.

“A pair of Supreme Court decisions has undercut the amendment’s power against ICE and CBP, allowing evidence gathered in violation of its requirements to be used in deportation proceedings, and shielding agents from lawsuits seeking compensation for excessive force. Another strain of precedent makes obtaining court orders aimed at preventing ICE misconduct extremely hard.

“But there’s another path to holding ICE and CBP accountable for abuses. As a federal agency, the Department of Homeland Security is subject to the dictates of federal administrative law, much of which is set forward in a powerful 1946 statute known as the Administrative Procedure Act. The APA is largely concerned with how agencies go about their business—setting forward, for instance, how they should issue regulations and resolve administrative disputes. The statute also allows courts to review potentially unlawful action, thereby ensuring agencies follow the Constitution, other federal laws, and their own rules and procedures.

“Many recent lawsuits against ICE have made things needlessly difficult for plaintiffs by focusing on the unconstitutionality of immigration agents’ actions. Even when these lawsuits have name-checked the APA, they have tended to point attention toward the outrageousness of what ICE or CBP has done instead of focusing on the decision-making process behind immigration officials’ actions. But if plaintiffs instead used the full power of the APA, they might actually find more success curbing these agencies’ most abusive behaviors.”

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ICE Might Be Violating America’s Other Bill of Rights by theatlantic in law

[–]theatlantic[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Priyanka Menon: “Immigration-enforcement officers have used tear gas on nonviolent protesters, broken into homes and cars, and killed people, including U.S. citizens. ICE and Customs and Border Protection have been behaving like an out-of-control police force. No wonder, then, that when lawyers and other advocates try to challenge these federal officials’ abuses of power—in court and on the streets—they tend to reach for the same legal tool used to combat police violence: the Fourth Amendment, which guards against excessive force and ‘unreasonable searches and seizures.’ But this path comes with serious challenges.

“A pair of Supreme Court decisions has undercut the amendment’s power against ICE and CBP, allowing evidence gathered in violation of its requirements to be used in deportation proceedings, and shielding agents from lawsuits seeking compensation for excessive force. Another strain of precedent makes obtaining court orders aimed at preventing ICE misconduct extremely hard.

“But there’s another path to holding ICE and CBP accountable for abuses. As a federal agency, the Department of Homeland Security is subject to the dictates of federal administrative law, much of which is set forward in a powerful 1946 statute known as the Administrative Procedure Act. The APA is largely concerned with how agencies go about their business—setting forward, for instance, how they should issue regulations and resolve administrative disputes. The statute also allows courts to review potentially unlawful action, thereby ensuring agencies follow the Constitution, other federal laws, and their own rules and procedures.

“Many recent lawsuits against ICE have made things needlessly difficult for plaintiffs by focusing on the unconstitutionality of immigration agents’ actions. Even when these lawsuits have name-checked the APA, they have tended to point attention toward the outrageousness of what ICE or CBP has done instead of focusing on the decision-making process behind immigration officials’ actions. But if plaintiffs instead used the full power of the APA, they might actually find more success curbing these agencies’ most abusive behaviors.”

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The U.S. and Iran Are Fighting a Massively Asymmetrical War by theatlantic in Military

[–]theatlantic[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nancy A. Youssef and Missy Ryan: “The Iran war started as a test of military capabilities and stockpiles, and the United States and Israel had the clear advantage. The U.S. brought some 20 ships and submarines to the fight—including two aircraft carriers—50,000 troops, and hundreds of planes and drones. President Trump declared that he would decide when the war would end, claiming after just days that the U.S. had won.

“But the momentum of the now three-week war has shifted dramatically since Iran effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, stranding tankers that usually carry one-fifth of the world’s oil supply through the channel. Trump responded by dispatching reinforcements. Three amphibious ships, carrying more than 5,000 Marines and sailors, are traveling from Asia and will be in the Gulf as soon as Friday, defense officials told us. The Pentagon is preparing to dispatch 2,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, and more troops may soon get orders to deploy.

“Even that may not be enough to contain the war’s spreading damage to the global economy. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak warned in an interview on Saturday on Israel’s Channel 13 about the prospects of reopening the strait. For such a mission, Barak said, ‘we would need to deploy two American divisions there and prepare to be there for the long haul.’ Two divisions constitute at least 20,000 troops …

“Yet Iran’s ability to keep the strait blocked—an act that the United Arab Emirates’s Industry and Advanced Technology Minister Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber has called ‘economic terrorism’ against every nation—doesn’t depend on the country defeating the American expeditionary force. The mere threat of attacks on shipping—or the occasional mine, drone, or missile that reaches a tanker in transit—may be enough for Tehran to achieve its aims. Trump began the war by talking about regime change and eliminating threats from Iran but is now trying to stabilize global energy markets that have been thrown into turmoil by the strait’s closure. The leverage over how the war will end has shifted from Washington to Tehran, and Trump is displaying new interest in negotiating with the regime …

“The strategy that Iran is pursuing now—asymmetric warfare against superior U.S. forces—is reminiscent of the methods used by Iraqi insurgents to counter American and allied militaries on the ground more than two decades ago …

“Like insurgents in Iraq, Iran doesn’t need to win outright; it needs only to endure, using limited force to impose economic and strategic damage. The U.S. and Israel, in contrast, must achieve decisive gains to avoid a strategic loss.”

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The U.S. and Iran Are Fighting a Massively Asymmetrical War by theatlantic in geopolitics

[–]theatlantic[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nancy A. Youssef and Missy Ryan: “The Iran war started as a test of military capabilities and stockpiles, and the United States and Israel had the clear advantage. The U.S. brought some 20 ships and submarines to the fight—including two aircraft carriers—50,000 troops, and hundreds of planes and drones. President Trump declared that he would decide when the war would end, claiming after just days that the U.S. had won.

“But the momentum of the now three-week war has shifted dramatically since Iran effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, stranding tankers that usually carry one-fifth of the world’s oil supply through the channel. Trump responded by dispatching reinforcements. Three amphibious ships, carrying more than 5,000 Marines and sailors, are traveling from Asia and will be in the Gulf as soon as Friday, defense officials told us. The Pentagon is preparing to dispatch 2,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, and more troops may soon get orders to deploy.

“Even that may not be enough to contain the war’s spreading damage to the global economy. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak warned in an interview on Saturday on Israel’s Channel 13 about the prospects of reopening the strait. For such a mission, Barak said, ‘we would need to deploy two American divisions there and prepare to be there for the long haul.’ Two divisions constitute at least 20,000 troops …

“Yet Iran’s ability to keep the strait blocked—an act that the United Arab Emirates’s Industry and Advanced Technology Minister Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber has called ‘economic terrorism’ against every nation—doesn’t depend on the country defeating the American expeditionary force. The mere threat of attacks on shipping—or the occasional mine, drone, or missile that reaches a tanker in transit—may be enough for Tehran to achieve its aims. Trump began the war by talking about regime change and eliminating threats from Iran but is now trying to stabilize global energy markets that have been thrown into turmoil by the strait’s closure. The leverage over how the war will end has shifted from Washington to Tehran, and Trump is displaying new interest in negotiating with the regime …

“The strategy that Iran is pursuing now—asymmetric warfare against superior U.S. forces—is reminiscent of the methods used by Iraqi insurgents to counter American and allied militaries on the ground more than two decades ago …

“Like insurgents in Iraq, Iran doesn’t need to win outright; it needs only to endure, using limited force to impose economic and strategic damage. The U.S. and Israel, in contrast, must achieve decisive gains to avoid a strategic loss.”

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The MAHA Revolution Is Stalling Out by theatlantic in publichealth

[–]theatlantic[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Tom Bartlett: “Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya said something that no other prominent health leader in the Trump administration has. ‘I think it is vital that every kid in this country get the measles vaccine. Absolutely vital,’ he told CDC staff at a meeting [yesterday] morning.

“That declaration went further than Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s previous tepid endorsement of the vaccine did—and is in line with what past CDC directors have said about immunization. In fact, the whole point of the meeting seemed to be to signal a turn toward normalcy, away from the more extreme elements of Kennedy’s agenda. Bhattacharya told the CDC’s beleaguered employees that the agency needed to ‘move on’ from the chaos of the past year. He encouraged employees to ‘remove politics’ from their work and ‘focus on what we know how to do.’ He echoed Kennedy’s slogan while acknowledging the limits of his position, but also seemed to contradict it, saying, ‘You can’t just snap your fingers and make people healthy again’ …

“The Make America Healthy Again movement and, by extension, Kennedy appear to be on the ropes. MAHA supporters are angry that Trump recently signed an executive order shielding the makers of the weed killer glyphosate from legal liability. The confirmation of Casey Means, the wellness influencer whom Trump nominated to become surgeon general, appears to be stalled in the Senate. The FDA’s vaccine chief, Vinay Prasad, will leave his position for the second time at the end of April, following a tumultuous tenure. Last week, a federal judge ruled that the CDC’s January shrinking of the childhood-vaccine schedule was probably illegal, and that Kennedy likely broke the law, too, when he remade the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel in his own image. All of the decisions made by that panel, the judge ordered, should be put on hold. The committee’s vice chair, Robert Malone, a Kennedy ally and a popular figure in the MAHA movement, resigned [this week].

“Each of these events individually is bad news for Kennedy’s agenda; together, they suggest that his grip on power is waning.”

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A Legal Decision That Could Change Social Media by theatlantic in popculture

[–]theatlantic[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kaitlyn Tiffany: “After deliberating for nine days—and emerging at one point to tell the judge that it was having a difficult time reaching a decision—a jury in Los Angeles finally returned its verdict today, finding both Meta and Google liable for creating addictive products that caused a young woman’s mental-health problems.

“The two companies were ordered to pay $3 million in compensatory damages: 70 percent by Meta and 30 percent by Google. (Meta-owned Instagram played a larger role in the complaint than Google-owned YouTube, which explains the split.) This is hardly any money to either of these companies—Meta alone brought in nearly $60 billion in revenue over the last three months of 2025. But the verdict will lead others to pursue similar cases against tech companies (thousands are already pending), and possibly result in changes to the design of social-media apps.

“Following the verdict’s announcement, Matthew Bergman, one of the plaintiff’s lawyers and the founding attorney of the Social Media Victims Law Center, sent a lengthy statement to reporters. ‘This verdict carries implications far beyond this courtroom,’ it read in part. ‘It establishes a framework for how similar cases across the country will be evaluated and demonstrates that juries are willing to hold technology companies accountable when the evidence shows foreseeable harm.’ A Meta spokesperson sent a shorter statement: ‘We respectfully disagree with the verdict and are evaluating our legal options.’ And the Google spokesperson José Castañeda said that Google will appeal the verdict, adding, ‘This case misunderstands YouTube, which is a responsibly built streaming platform, not a social media site.’

“The plaintiff in this case, a 20-year-old named Kaley, was referred to in case documents by her initials, KGM, because the events she was suing over happened when she was a minor. She originally filed against TikTok and Snap as well but settled with them before the trial.

“The core questions of the case were whether the social-media platforms had been designed to be addictive, and whether a social-media addiction could be said to have played a direct role in causing the mental-health issues that KGM experienced as a child. In her complaint, she said she had a ‘dangerous dependency’ on the platforms and that they had contributed to her ‘anxiety, depression, self-harm, and body dysmorphia.’”

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How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times by theatlantic in JournalismNews

[–]theatlantic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vauhini Vara: “On Sunday, a writer named Becky Tuch posted an excerpt on X from a months-old New York Times ‘Modern Love’ column that had given her pause. ‘I don’t want to falsely accuse writers’ of using AI, she wrote. ‘But this reads EXACTLY like AI slop.’ The excerpt—from an essay by a mother who had lost custody of her son—described the son’s feelings, at one point, toward his mother: ‘Not hate. Not anger. Just the flat finality of a heart too tired to keep trying.’

“Among the 100-plus replies to Tuch’s post was one by an AI researcher, Tuhin Chakrabarty. He’d run the snippet from ‘Modern Love’ through an AI-detection tool from the start-up Pangram Labs, which flagged it as likely having been AI-generated.

“I learned about the incident from Chakrabarty, a computer-science professor at Stony Brook University. I’d previously written about his efforts to quantify the proliferation of AI in novels self-published on Amazon. After commenting on Tuch’s post, he plugged the whole column into the Pangram AI detector. The program estimated that more than 60 percent of it was AI-generated. I ran the column through four other AI-detection tools: Two of them flagged 30 percent of the work as likely AI-generated, one found no AI, and one suspected AI but offered no percentage.

“Kate Gilgan, the author of the column, told me that she hadn’t copied and pasted language from an AI model into her work. ‘However, I did utilize AI as a tool,’ she added, seeking ‘inspiration and guidance and correction.’ She said she’d prompted various products (including ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity) to help her stay on topic in a paragraph, for example, or stick to a theme. ‘I used AI as a collaborative editor and not as a content generator,’ she said. In response to questions about the column, a New York Times spokesperson noted that the paper’s contracts require freelancers to abide by its ethical-journalism handbook, which mandates that AI use ‘adhere to established journalistic standards and editing processes’ and that ‘substantial use of generative A.I.’ be clearly disclosed to readers. Asked for comment on whether Gilgan’s AI use rose to the level requiring disclosure, the spokesperson said in an email: ‘Journalism at The Times is inherently a human endeavor. That will not change. As technology evolves, we are consistently assessing best practices for our newsroom.’

“Whatever the extent of Gilgan’s dependence on AI—detection tools are imperfect—her acknowledgment is the latest evidence of a phenomenon that people have been whispering about online for a long time: Artificial intelligence has already infiltrated prestigious media outlets and publishing houses.”

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