Janice Harayda
1 min readMar 30, 2023

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I'd add: Medium should clarify its policy about how you have to disclose the use of ChatGPT or other AI. The current policy says you must disclose it but not how (and many people are flouting even that).

That gap means that, more and more, you reach the end of a story and find a note saying that it was created with ChatGPT, thereby giving the poster the financial benefit of a full read, when--if you knew the story had been written with ChatGPT--you might not have read it all.

I'd like to see Medium adopt a policy similar to the one that applies to conflicts of interest in journalism (as at reputable newspapers and magazines): You must disclose a conflict either up front or at the relevant section of a story. That's why you see the words "Full disclosure" on so many stories (though you can disclose a conflict more gracefully). I'd also like to see Medium spell out the consequences for undisclosed AI use.

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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