It's Time To Scrap News Media, Replace It All With AI

<![CDATA[I will be the first person to admit that artificial intelligence terrifies me. It can be wildly funny if used in the right way, but the ability to pass stuff made up out of whole cloth by someone typing up a query in a search box makes me worry about whether we can believe anything is true in the future. And yet, I think I've reached the point where I'd trust news and political reportage coming through an AI algorithm rather than bother with resistance media any longer. You no longer can take one story offered by what used to be called mainstream media at face value, unless you happen to be an idiot. It's not just a couple of examples here and there where biases and outright falsehoods are passed off as news or opinion in order to further an anti-Trump narrative. When it comes to reporting about the President's second term, the false reporting is so off the charts that one needs to assume every story is false unless it's proven correct later. Just in the past week, here's the garbage we were treated to leading up to Saturday night's Nerd Prom, aka the White House Correspondents Dinner. Politico, seemingly interested in creating a rift between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy to the President, Steve Witkoff, ran a story citing anonymous senior sources that Witkoff was negotiating with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin and offering to lift sanctions on energy and their Nord Stream pipeline. It was met with denials by both Rubio and Witkoff, who were on different continents at the time. ]]>