Fifty Percent of What?

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700

When critics noticed that a Fortune journalist named Nick Lichtenberg was publishing more articles in six months than his colleagues managed in a year, and that an AI model was doing a lot of the producing, the magazine’s leadership offered a defense that has stuck with me: “More than 50% is Nick.” It was meant to reassure. It did the opposite, and not for the reason everyone assumed.

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Fifty Percent of What?