Newsflash: AI Might Save Journalism—By Killing It First
Journalism may survive AI, just without journalists, newsrooms, or the truth. Welcome to the age of summary without substance and headlines without humans.
AI isn’t just rewriting the news, it’s rewriting the rules. Summarizers like ChatGPT and Perplexity can condense articles, answer questions, and remix content for any niche—faster and cheaper than any reporter.
That efficiency may enhance deep reporting but could gut the business model supporting it. Investigations might get easier with AI combing court filings or video, but verification, nuance, and trust remain human-dependent, especially in an age of AI hallucinations.
• AI now reads, summarizes, and rewrites news • Newsrooms risk being replaced by chatbots • Readers crave personalization, not publishers
We’re watching the Fourth Estate become the fastest estate. This forces us to ask: as AI reshapes how we consume truth, what’s our responsibility in ensuring journalism survives beyond the scroll?
Read the full article on The New Yorker.
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