What does it actually mean to get your news from AI? Laura Preston laments endless, evasive bullet points. I don’t know what’s worse: journalists thinking they can ignore AI after this, or people reading AI content and just going “good enough.” (Columbia Journalism Review)
Summary
- ChatGPT strips stories of human voices, active verbs, and emotional reality, reducing everything to bulleted lists and "key takeaways" that make even violent events sound like boring homework.
- Instead of saving time, ChatGPT generates endless walls of evasive, centrist text that take forever to parse and leave you understanding less than if you'd just read the original article.
- By framing every issue as a "complex debate with many factors," ChatGPT trains people to endlessly "research" without ever forming opinions or engaging in civic life - the opposite of what journalism should do.
