“It’s only when you click on “CNET Money Staff,” that the actual “authorship” is revealed.”
CNET has published about 73 AI-generated financial explainers since November under the byline “CNET Money Staff.” The disclosure hides in a dropdown, and the topics are search bait like how Zelle works. Google says it ranks usefulness, not who or what wrote it. The byline is the only part a reader sees, and it lies.