AI-Generated Interview Ethics: Why Disclosure Is...

The strangest thing about Esquire Singapore’s Mackenyu piece is not the sentence, “The following interview was produced with Claude, Copilot, and edited by humans.” It’s the calm, workmanlike tone of it. As if an AI‑generated interview with a living actor is just another production choice, like swapping the font. TL;DR AI-generated interview ethics are not solved by disclosure, because the harm isn’t the ghostwriter—it’s treating a person as infinitely re-creatable content. Once you can prompt a