> You do however have reporters sitting between you and the source material a lot of the time
In cases where a reporter is just summarising e.g. a court case, sure. Stock market news has been automated since the 2000s.
More broadly, AI assistants misrepresenting news content may sometimes direct reference a court case. But they often don't. Even if they only could, that covers a small fraction of the news, much of which the AI will need to rely on reporters detailing the primary sources they're interfacing with.
Reporter error is somewhat orthogonal to AI assistants' accuracy.
> Reporter error is somewhat orthogonal to AI assistants' accuracy.
It is not at all. Journalists are wrong all the time, but you still treat news like record and not a sample. In fact I'd put money that AI mischaracterizes events at a LOWER rate than AI does: narratives shift over time, and journalists are more likely to succumb to this shift.
> Journalists are wrong all the time, but you still treat news like record and not a sample
Straw man. Everyone educated constantly argues over sourcing.
> I'd put money that AI mischaracterizes events at a LOWER rate than AI does
Maybe it does. But an AI sourcing journalists is demonstrably worse. Source: TFA.
> narratives shift over time, and journalists are more likely to succumb to this shift
Lol, we’ve already forgotten about MechaHitler.
At the end of the day, a lot of people consume news to be entertained. They’re better served by AI. The risk is folks of consequence start doing that, at which point I suppose the system self resolves by making them, in the long run, of no consequence compared to those who own and control the AI.
In cases where a reporter is just summarising e.g. a court case, sure. Stock market news has been automated since the 2000s.
More broadly, AI assistants misrepresenting news content may sometimes direct reference a court case. But they often don't. Even if they only could, that covers a small fraction of the news, much of which the AI will need to rely on reporters detailing the primary sources they're interfacing with.
Reporter error is somewhat orthogonal to AI assistants' accuracy.