Kate Knibbs of Wired writes about RunTimeWire, a website covering artificial intelligence that uses AI to break and write stories.
Knibbs writes, “WIRED was one of the quickest to write it up. But another outlet, RuntimeWire, published an article even faster, beating us by more than three hours.
“To make things worse, RuntimeWire didn’t actually have anyone on the ground at the Mandalay Bay convention center. In fact, it didn’t have any writers at all. It’s an AI newsroom operated by serial entrepreneur Ryan Merket, who puts his name on the bylines of the stories his synthetic team churns out. ‘I was moving really fast because I knew there were reporters in the audience who were trying to scoop it as well,’ he says.
“The Austin-based Merket spotted an OpenAI executive posting about the conference while scrolling on X, then fed the stream’s transcript to his agents while it was still ongoing. Publication took ‘about six minutes’ from the time he sent over the transcript, he says.”
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