Mirror owner Reach publishes first articles written using AI

The owner of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express newspapers has begun publishing articles written using artificial intelligence as it grapples with pressure to cut costs. Reach has published two articles authored using an AI system called Scribe on its local news sites, its chief executive Jim Mullen said. The company, which also owns the Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo and hundreds of other regional titles, has outlined plans to cut hundreds of jobs as the group battles rising costs and declining revenues. “There isn’t any large-scale plan to remove editorial costs through AI, it’s there to support editorial.” Reach said in January that it would cut around 200 jobs in a bid to save at least £30m and said on Tuesday that it would have to “consider costs carefully” as advertising revenues stutter.