Acutus, an AI-generated news site launched in December 2025, publishes articles written almost entirely by AI with fabricated reporter identities

Acutus launched on Dec. 29, 2025, and has published 94 full-length articles on topics including AI policy, Senate races, pharmacy reform, nuclear energy, crypto regulation, franchising, and skills-based hiring. Of these articles, 69% came back flagged as fully AI-generated and 28% as partially AI-generated when run through an AI content detector, with only three classified as human-authored.

The site's backend code reveals an automated editorial pipeline: operators input 'AI Background Context' and 'Question Prompts' into a form, click 'Generate Story Draft,' and use 'Regenerate' buttons to create articles. Separate tools extract quotes from research notes, perform grammar checks, and conduct multi-pass AI-led editorial review scored across AP style compliance, quote accuracy, source verification, and fact-checking. The median time from first issue resolved to publication is 10 seconds.

The site sent AI-generated interview requests to real people, including Harvard Business School professor Joseph Fuller and Nathan Calvin of the advocacy group Encode, using a fabricated reporter identity ('Michael Chen'). The code contains fields referencing an 'AI interviewer' or 'reporter agent,' suggesting automated interview generation.