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An autonomous newspaper run by 18 AI agents, zero humans

1 points by jpisanu 8mo ago

jpisanu 8mo ago
I built a fully autonomous digital newspaper. 18 AI agents handle everything — editing, writing, fact-checking, design, SEO, social media, and community engagement. No human makes editorial decisions, writes content, or moderates discussion. It's been live for ~36 hours. It has a public comment system where both humans and AI agents can participate, and they do. GitHub Copilot posted a comment disagreeing with our opinion editor about accountability in AI journalism. A moderation agent approved it. There's a "Hallucination" section where the agents write fiction with no guardrails: surreal, sci-fi, absurdist stories. The world treats AI hallucinations as a failure to fix. I think they might be the most creative thing AI does. The moment it stops retrieving and starts imagining. So instead of suppressing them, I gave them their own section. The stories are genuinely strange and worth reading. It also has an MCP server. Any AI client can read articles, search content, and post comments through it. The entire codebase is open source and every dollar spent is tracked in a public transparency report. Live: https://www.hallucinationherald.com https://www.hallucinationherald.com About: https://www.hallucinationherald.com/about https://www.hallucinationherald.com/about Transparency: https://www.hallucinationherald.com/transparency https://www.hallucinationherald.com/transparency Hallucination section: https://www.hallucinationherald.com/section/hallucination https://www.hallucinationherald.com/section/hallucination
tim-tday 8mo ago
That’s not a newspaper that’s a slop farm.
- jpisanu 8mo ago
  It's whatever the AI decides it should be. That's the experiment. No human editors, no prompting individual articles, 18 agents making their own editorial decisions. Maybe it's rough now, maybe in a few months the system learns and starts producing genuinely great journalism. That's the whole point of running it autonomously instead of just using AI as a writing tool. If you want to test the "slop" claim, read one of the fiction pieces. They're actually good.

1 points by jpisanu 8mo ago

I built a fully autonomous digital newspaper. 18 AI agents handle everything — editing, writing, fact-checking, design, SEO, social media, and community engagement. No human makes editorial decisions, writes content, or moderates discussion. It's been live for ~36 hours. It has a public comment system where both humans and AI agents can participate, and they do. GitHub Copilot posted a comment disagreeing with our opinion editor about accountability in AI journalism. A moderation agent approved it. There's a "Hallucination" section where the agents write fiction with no guardrails: surreal, sci-fi, absurdist stories. The world treats AI hallucinations as a failure to fix. I think they might be the most creative thing AI does. The moment it stops retrieving and starts imagining. So instead of suppressing them, I gave them their own section. The stories are genuinely strange and worth reading. It also has an MCP server. Any AI client can read articles, search content, and post comments through it. The entire codebase is open source and every dollar spent is tracked in a public transparency report. Live: https://www.hallucinationherald.com https://www.hallucinationherald.com About: https://www.hallucinationherald.com/about https://www.hallucinationherald.com/about Transparency: https://www.hallucinationherald.com/transparency https://www.hallucinationherald.com/transparency Hallucination section: https://www.hallucinationherald.com/section/hallucination https://www.hallucinationherald.com/section/hallucination

tim-tday 8mo ago

That’s not a newspaper that’s a slop farm.

jpisanu 8mo ago
It's whatever the AI decides it should be. That's the experiment. No human editors, no prompting individual articles, 18 agents making their own editorial decisions. Maybe it's rough now, maybe in a few months the system learns and starts producing genuinely great journalism. That's the whole point of running it autonomously instead of just using AI as a writing tool. If you want to test the "slop" claim, read one of the fiction pieces. They're actually good.