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(Maggie Harrison Dupré Avatar)   By (https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison) Maggie Harrison Dupré      Published  Sep 8, 2026 8:48 AM EDT           (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=futurism.com) Add Futurism (opens in a new tab)      More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.        (A woman with shoulder-length brown hair and light highlights is wearing a pink sweater and looking at a newspaper with a confused or concerned expression. The background is softly lit with warm tones and features a paneled wall.)    Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech  (handle_newsletter_email_submission) (3c73518d1d)  (/artificial-intelligence/journalist-accuses-local-newspaper-ai-article)  (FUTinline) (0) Email address  (Enter your email) (Please enter a valid email address)  Sign Up  Thank you!           A journalist has accused Cleveland.com  — the online home of The Plain Dealer , Ohio’s largest newspaper — of publishing an article under her byline without her consent, knowledge, or approval. The article was generated by the “Cleveland.com Express Desk,” which “uses AI tools to assist in producing content” that the newspaper claims is “reviewed and edited by staff.” In (https://x.com/njKaitlinDurbin/status/2097061231882317827) an X post on September 7, Cleveland.com  government reporter Kaitlin Durbin said that she’d been away on her honeymoon when her employer published the AI article under her name. The article — a local news story informing readers that the law director of Ohio’s Cuyahoga County was stepping down — had nothing to do with her reporting, Durbin said, and she “did not write or review a word of it” before it was published. “Trying to understand how this story published with my byline last week while I was on my honeymoon. I did not write or review a word of it and it does not pull info from past reporting,” Durbin wrote. “Does Cleveland.com think they just own my name now?” The (https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09/cuyahoga-county-law-director-rick-manoloff-to-step-down-sept-11.html) article has been updated to remove Durbin’s name, and a correction notice has been added. “Note: This story has been updated to correct the byline,” reads the correction. “A reporter’s byline was added to the story in error.” Cleveland.com  (https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2023191761003368714?s=20) made waves back in February when its editor, Chris Quinn, (https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/journalism-schools-are-teaching-fear-of-the-future-letter-from-the-editor.html) published a letter to readers in which he addressed Cleveland.com ‘s move to create an AI-powered news desk. The letter heralded AI as the “future” of journalism, and criticized journalism schools and job-seeking journalists for not going all-in on the tech. “Artificial intelligence is not bad for newsrooms,” Quinn wrote in the letter. “It’s the future of them.” The editor further argued that AI was simply being used to expedite the work of real journalists, and would free them to do more reporting. After this story was published, Quinn told Futurism  that the byline blunder was “a simple mistake, the result of a miscommunication between a couple of editors.”  “It was corrected as soon as we learned of it from the Tweet,” Quinn continued, adding that he’s “written extensively about our policies, practices and controls regarding AI content in my From the Editor columns this year” and (https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/chris-quinns-letters-from-the-editor-about-newsroom-artificial-intelligence-experiments.html) directing us to a post containing links to his statements on Cleveland.com’s  AI policies. “If you’re looking for information about us, it’s all there,” said Quinn. “I have nothing to add.” Leila Atassi, editor of public interest and advocacy at Cleveland.com  and The Plain-Dealer , (https://www.cjr.org/news/cleveland-newsroom-ai-rewrite-desk-chris-quinn-plain-dealer.php) told the Columbia Journalism Review   at the time that stories published by the newspaper’s AI news desk would still be the “work of a real reporter.” “It’s real accountability,” Atassi continued. “AI is the assistant, but it’s not the journalist.” The Cleveland.com  story now carries no byline at all — except for “Cleveland.com Express Desk.” More on AI and journalism:  (https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fired-journalist-ai-posts-in-his-name) Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name    Add Futurism as a (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=futurism.com) preferred source on Google to see more of our reporting.   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