First there were the journalists, who fully researched their material from first-hand sources. Then there were the bloggers who, without leaving their armchair, wrote opinion pieces based on whatever the journalists had written. Now there is AI, which apes the non-experience of the bloggers. Truly we are now living in a simulation of a simulation.
If the example of journalists is anything to go by, soon both journalists and bloggers will produce content using exclusively AI.
$ echo "write me a blog post from the perspective of a young phd in AI on how fears of AI and machine learning are vastly overblown. include fake but obscure and outrageous examples of when AI was able to save lives and downplay real examples of when AI got it wrong. contrast the promise of AI getting it right with software bugs resulting in fatalities. argue this will allow the average company to hire fewer workers but allow those workers to work longer hours with increased happiness. summarize with a specific dollar prediction of improvement productivity and gross domestic product" | sendmail oped@nytimes.com