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[One Herald Guild 🏝 @OneHeraldGuild]

🚨 BREAKING: We’re joining our colleagues across @mcclatchy in refusing to put our names on AI-generated stories in protest of McClatchy’s attempt to trade the quality of human-produced journalism for the quantity of AI-produced slop.

https://t.co/n9PUHIXd78

[One Herald Guild 🏝 @OneHeraldGuild]

We stand with our colleagues at five Pacific Northwest newspapers who are on strike today.

Tell @mcclatchy: We won’t cross the picket line in the PNW!

[ID & WA News Guilds @idwanewsguilds]

Link to picket pledge: https://t.co/4XYXuOO9ej

Strike fund link: https://t.co/NmFyLTv6gj

[ID & WA News Guilds @idwanewsguilds]

Don’t cross the picket line today, Tuesday, May 26! Join us by refusing to click any articles or interacting in any way with our five McClatchy newspapers.

[Korie Dean @koriedean]

"Filling our newspapers and websites with A.I.-generated content harms the relationships journalists build in our communities for a truly sustainable newsroom."

[ID & WA News Guilds @idwanewsguilds]

📍Tacoma, Washington. Without local news, we all lose. Many of our reporters are struggling and need your help. Donate to our GoFundMe strike fund at https://t.co/O39zRfNnlr #pnwnews #strike #unionstrong #mcclatchy

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

I am among the McClatchy journalists withholding my byline from AI-generated content. I cover sensitive stories that should never be repackaged or altered in any way by artificial intelligence. Whether the story is about sexual abuse or immigrants caged at Alligator Alcatraz, our journalists take great care to ensure that their material is accurate, fair and conveys invaluable aspects of humanity that AI simply can't do.

[Benjamin Dictor @BenjaminDictor]

Solidarity with @OneHeraldGuild @newsguild journalists who are fighting to defend integrity and transparency in the press.

[Claire Heddles @claireheddles]

Despite McClatchy execs' claims "that subscribers will continue paying for a product riddled with A.I.-generated repeats, we see it as nothing but a race to the bottom"

[Katie Robertson @katie_robertson]

New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out https://t.co/lObSuAlMBc

[One Herald Guild 🏝 @OneHeraldGuild]

“McClatchy has not acted responsibly or transparently in the rollout of its new ‘content scaling agent.’ Therefore, we are joining colleagues across the McClatchy chain and withholding our bylines on AI-generated stories until we can agree on guardrails for our members.”

[One Herald Guild 🏝 @OneHeraldGuild]

🚨 BREAKING: We’re joining our colleagues across @mcclatchy in refusing to put our names on AI-generated stories in protest of McClatchy’s attempt to trade the quality of human-produced journalism for the quantity of AI-produced slop.

https://t.co/n9PUHIXd78

[One Herald Guild 🏝 @OneHeraldGuild]

“Our readers expect and deserve journalism done by humans, not AI slop,” said @AnaChacinc, One Herald Guild Chair.

[J. Dale Shoemaker @JDale_Shoemaker]

At McClatchy, if you as a reporter refuse to use the AI bot to write articles, the bosses will produce the AI slop anyway and force your editor to put your name on against your will.

[ID & WA News Guilds @idwanewsguilds]

Without reporters, photographers and other newsroom staff, McClatchy CEO Tony Hunter wouldn't have millions of dollars to spend on AI.

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[ID & WA News Guilds @idwanewsguilds]

For #employeeappreciationday, McClatchy graciously offered its employees the opportunity to spend what little wages they get on overpriced merchandise.

You know what would make us feel actually appreciated? A livable wage. McClatchy should offer us one.