• DW.com, Sunday, June 21, 2026 9:05 PM

The German media world was rocked last week when two leading newspapers deleted articles written by artificial intelligence (AI), DW.com reports. In one case, Tagesspiegel had published an AI-written column by Stephan-Andreas Casdorff, former publisher and editor-in-chief. “I used AI in the texts,” admitted Casdorff. “I should have made that clear and therefore not allowed them to be published.” In the other instance, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung publishedan op-ed piece by Mario Voigt, the state premier of Thuringia, that was created by AI. However, the deletion of that article was criticized by Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel-Springer, who supports AI use. The deletion "desperate attempt from the stagecoach-lobby to ban the automobile." 

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