From scripts to sermons: is AI going to be writing everything soon? | Margaret Sullivan
‘Resistance is futile’, wrote one AI product manager for the Associated Press in internal messages to colleagues
In creative or creative-adjacent fields, AI generates a simulacrum of art, aspiring for acceptable mediocrity, not originality or distinction. News outlets have to offer readers or viewers something they can’t get anywhere else. Letting AI write your stories is a surefire way to become irrelevant.
11.03.2026 11:54
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Suits. All of them Suits.
10.03.2026 22:11
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There has to be something in the DSM about this—I had a supervisor once who gave me clothes that she bought and didn’t want any more. I didn’t want them either. And she expected me to wear them or explain why I didn’t. “I dropped them off at Goodwill. I thought that was best.”
10.03.2026 21:07
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This is how all my nightmares begin now
10.03.2026 19:57
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The only way I can square these Q/A exchanges is to watch a basketball game on tv/listen to the same game on radio:
What I see: flagrant foul; Jovic lands on the floor under the goal
What I hear: And Pettiford drains the three!
10.03.2026 16:22
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And she's thinking, I still gotta clean up the kitchen
10.03.2026 14:02
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Under the tyrannical rule of the MAGA regime, the United States is actively committing crimes against humanity and war crimes around the world and fascist republicans are in full support of it.
09.03.2026 05:06
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Screenshot of an X post by Really American claiming Republican Congressman Mark Alford said Americans must “sacrifice” by accepting higher gas prices to support Trump’s war with Iran. Below is a split-screen TV news segment with a female anchor on the left, a male reporter in the middle, and Congressman Alford on the right. A banner reads “BREAKING NEWS: CRUDE OIL PRICES HIT NEW HIGHS AMID WAR.”
The American people have sacrificed enough. Stop the war. Tax the billionaires.
08.03.2026 23:05
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Barack Obama honoring Jesse Jackson: Because of his courage, his audacity, that that two decades later, a young black senator from Chicago's South Side would even be taken seriously as a candidate for the presidential nomination.
Obama is so good. Miss this man.
06.03.2026 19:58
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Super excited. Super excited. Pretty neat.
05.03.2026 20:04
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Yeah, but see, this is different…
05.03.2026 12:38
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Metamucil, dude. That’ll keep you going for the show.
04.03.2026 15:18
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The Commitments. The Full Monty. Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx.
03.03.2026 23:00
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When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.
NOT A JOKE
03.03.2026 14:02
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03.03.2026 14:32
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What's amazing is that WingNut (yes, that's what he's been called for years) is able to get his pants on every day.
03.03.2026 14:07
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Plus, have you seen that coastline along the Caspian Sea?
03.03.2026 12:43
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Tubi has A Touch of Frost.
03.03.2026 12:27
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It looks like it glows in the dark—
01.03.2026 18:27
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Since nobody really wants to see a spreadsheet (which I’m actually sort of proud of), here’s the Coral Bark Japanese maple we’re planting in the yard—
01.03.2026 16:29
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It’s painful to watch.
01.03.2026 04:15
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Is this the sign of a man who will let go of power? The president and his allies are acting as though that’s something they’ll never let happen.
28.02.2026 14:29
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
27.02.2026 15:36
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Every time I see his face, I'm reminded of another little shit who sat in my senior English classroom saying, "I'm going to make a million dollars before I'm thirty."
How are you going to do that?
"I don't care. I'm just gonna do it."
26.02.2026 13:03
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Hey, it’s Tuesday, Feb. 24. Looking for something to watch on tv tonight? Auburn men’s basketball against Oklahoma at 8 central—be there!
24.02.2026 22:10
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This campaign is not about me, it’s about you. So I want to hear about your lives and the issues your communities face. We’re going to have listening sessions across the state, and this weekend we started in Union Springs. We’ll post the video right here at 6 pm CT on YouTube.com/@DougForAlabama
23.02.2026 21:29
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Kash Patel says he now has a lead that Savannah Guthrie's mom is being held at either the NCAA Final Four or the Masters golf tournament, plans to personally investigate.
22.02.2026 23:43
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Neither has this Methodist-turned-Unitarian
23.02.2026 00:59
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Seller on online banking app: Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Refr...
22.02.2026 13:56
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