All this system does is regurgitate a synthesis of what it has managed to trawl off the web.
If it was *actually* intelligent it would tell us that mainstream journalists are the main purveyors of the fake news ( what in days of yore we called ‘lies’ )

As for AI, that can swing Left or Right or any which way, depending upon which interests are running it. As such, it is something to be vary wary of.

Yes look to many initiatives examples such as Martyn’s own “The Working Group” or “Breaking Points” individuals like Glenn Greenwald who with a much smaller staff, budget and time in the market easily compete with the existing ossified monoliths.

The death of the (old) mainstream journalism is more to do with the severe erosion of public trust. Some of the reasons cited above, also the shift from more working class to a middle class urban profession, niche ideological capture, the downstream effect of chasing advertising dollars in the social media age and corruption that arises from preserving ‘access’ to the inner circles of politics and culture.