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She spoke on condition of anonymity as she did not have permission to speak publicly about personnel matters.
The Netflix deal, valued at nearly $83 billion, involves HBO Max, Warner Bros.
Paramount has bid $108 billion for the whole shebang, including such cable properties as CNN, TBS and Discovery, offering sports and news.
Warner has repeatedly rebuffed the bids from Paramount, which is led by David Ellison.
His father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, is one of the richest people on Earth and an advisor to President Trump.
Trump says he won't play a role, but the Ellisons have privately suggested they can get around serious antitrust concerns that have cropped up in the U.S.
Netflix retains the right to match any such offer from Paramount, but has shown no such interest in Warner's cable TV properties.
At the Baltimore Sun, an AI program wrote up a lengthy analysis of an address by Maryland Governor Wes Moore.
The piece was clearly marked as generated by AI.
It also wrongly referred to President Trump as the former president.
The News Guild called it slop.
Publisher and editor Triff Alatsis says future editors must be more thoroughly reviewed, but that, quote, to ignore this powerful tool would be a mistake.
In Cleveland, the editor of The Plain Dealer writes that job applicants should expect AI to draft articles from their original reporting.
He says that frees up extra time for reporters.
At both papers, humans edit the stories.
Science and tech news site Ars Technica retracted a recent article that failed to disclose it relied on AI.