Inside The Wall Street Journal’s newsroom this week, reporters’ group chats have been buzzing a bit more than usual. The topic, of course, was an opinion piece published in the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper that reverberated beyond the newsroom and kicked off a fresh wave of debate about the use of artificial intelligence in journalism.
On Monday, billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller stunned much of Wall Street by offering a pointed critique of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the hallowed pages of The Journal’s opinion section—only to later admit that he had used a large-language model to help draft the piece. In the wake of the revelation, editorial page director Paul Gigot defended the decision, dismissing critics as “media hall monitors.”
Indeed, Status has learned that Druckenmiller’s subsequent acknowledgment—and the opinion editor’s full-throated defense of the process—has…
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