Medium welcomes AI-written posts

Medium embraces AI-generated posts, as long as they have been credited as respective authors

Online digital publisher, Medium, has announced that it will gladly welcome posts written by artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT. The platform has imposed a condition that users disclose and clarify the author and give credit to the AI service.

Medium lets anyone create their own blog while selling memberships with exclusive pieces. In a blog post, Scott Lamb, Medium VP of content, shared a post stating that the company "welcomes the responsible use of AI-assistive technology on Medium".

Lamb stressed that this was just an “initial approach” and that the policy may change with changing technology.

Lamb said, “We believe that creating a culture of disclosure, where the shared expectation of good citizenship is that AI-generated content is disclosed, empowers readers. It allows them to choose their own reaction to, and engagement with, this kind of work, and clearly understand whether a story is machine- or human-written”.

Posts that haven't been disclosed won't be removed but won't be distributed on Medium's recommendation features. The publishing platform won't scan published pieces for AI-generated text

A lot of writers and publications on Medium have banned the use of AI-writing tools, The Verge reported. However, a lot of digital media publications have embraced AI-writing tools like ChatGPT, including Buzzfeed.