Writing on scanning drafts, revising flagged passages, and publishing with clearer signals.
AI-generated text can read as polished and confident while still getting the facts wrong. Detection answers whether a machine wrote it. Fact-checking answers whether it's true, and that's the harder, more important question.
Marketers keep repeating that Google punishes AI-generated content. Google's own guidance says something narrower and more specific, and the real cases confirm it.
An AI tool can rewrite every sentence of someone else's reporting and still be plagiarizing it. Two 2026 newsroom firings show why a plagiarism check catches something a detector never will.