Reporters for McClatchy, which owns The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and other newspapers, are reportedly striking their names from stories in which artificial intelligence is being used to create new versions of them.

Ariane Lange, an investigative reporter at The Sacramento Bee and the vice chair of The Sacramento Bee News Guild, told The New York Times that putting one's name – known in the newspaper business  as a "byline" – on a story one hasn't written it "feels like a lie."

The stories are now running under a generic credit, or byine