Stephen Downes

This article is making two claims: first, that news media are increasingly dependent on AI for content and editorial decisions, and send, that the others of these companies (both AI and news media) are pushing AI steadily to the right of the political spectrum. "As AI tools become essential to how journalism gets produced — for research, for drafting, for summarization - the biases built into those tools will invisibly shape the output." The presumption, of course, is that these pressures and biases didn't exist in media before AI took centre stage. But I question that assumption. (I also need to mention Nieman Lab's new user-hostile web page design - not only is it really hard to reads, it noticeably slows down execution of everything in Firefox (on Chrome it's OK, but it's still an assault on the senses)).