> The main reason to be disappointed is the fluency with which people have taken to just outright lying. The article, to me, proves pretty conclusively that the

> The main reason to be disappointed is the fluency with which people have taken to just outright lying. The article, to me, proves pretty conclusively that the articles were AI generated and that most (or at least some) of the authors aren't real people but the spokesman is just... lying. Agreed. Maybe there's a proper term for it but I call it the "hitman fallacy," where people reason that they can't be accused of murder because they aren't the party that pulled the trigger. In a way, I can see their [tortured] logic-- they did in fact pay real money to a real person to write that article. It should follow that a real person did in fact write it, otherwise it's fraud. Gannett shies away from calling it that because it's not fraud when the other party delivers what you asked for.