Is AI up to the task of replacing news outlets?

ChatGPT’s worldview and its responses have become a new node in reality, much like how mainstream media outlets are nodes in our common information ￰0￱ already believe that AI will wipe out news organizations ￰1￱ written word has been challenged repeatedly throughout the 20th century, and its demise has been predicted over and over. First, radio was supposed to kill the newspaper, then TV, then the ￰2￱ it’s ￰3￱ if news outlets disappear, no one will know what the news actually ￰4￱ services rely on newsrooms to function. “Citizen journalism,” which Elon Musk and other tech bros put their faith in, has never ￰5￱ turns into garbage, anecdotes, and ￰6￱ journalism costs money to produce.

It’s a craft that takes time to ￰7￱ as you probably know, AI apps can now also browse and search the web for ￰8￱ about the buzzword “Agent”? According to the PR departments of AI companies, the “agent stage” is in development. Or, it was, last ￰9￱ you remember that we were going to pay 2,000 USD per month, per agent? Well, according to Sam Altman and OpenAI we were.

Now, almost nobody is talking about those ￰10￱ idea was that your AI could act on your behalf more independently, continuously running in the ￰11￱ that did not ￰12￱ “agents” made mistakes, just like the rest of the LLM AIs. Otherwise, OpenAI would use themselves to make more ￰13￱ usual example is something like ticket ￰14￱ should use your AI to buy tickets, is what AI companies seem to ￰15￱ AI agent will search for flight ￰16￱ that’s just misguided and mostly hype, since ticket vendors are already incorporating AI algorithms to make things easier in various ￰17￱ don’t need your own AI to buy ￰18￱ will be plenty of so called AIs offering those ￰19￱ why not let an agent buy and sell stocks according to your own strategy, around the clock?

What could possibly go wrong? Joking aside: the word “agent” is unnecessary. It’s just buzzword ￰20￱ goal is still to try to get an AI to do something useful for ￰21￱ “agent” would dive deeper, think in parallel, and deliver something more comprehensive and connected. Well, that was the ￰22￱ it’s still the same LLM—the same hallucinating AI—possibly with slightly fewer ￰23￱ still with ￰24￱ one step in the agent-process goes wrong, the whole thing turns sour.

Google’s Nano Banana image creation tool’s interpretation of the prompt “AI data center companies struggle to build data centers”. It’s about attention AI companies are competing with traditional web ￰25￱ (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google) led the previous race for viewers’ ￰26￱ new race is among AI providers. That’s why Elon Musk has launched his own AI platform. He’s caught up in the hype, thinking that AI has greater potential than even rockets or cars.

So, what does the lineup look like and where are they located? Here is the full list of the current landscape of competitors, in alphabetical order: Amazon Q , Amazon, USA, ChatGPT , OpenAI, USA, Copilot , Microsoft, USA, Claude , Anthropic, France, DeepSeek , High-Flyer, China, Gemini , Alphabet (Google), USA , Grok , xAI, USA, Meta AI , Meta (Facebook), ￰27￱ out of the eight are ￰28￱ them would cost billions of dollars. We’ll see if IBM and Apple respectively step up with what’s ￰29￱ AI Could more players enter the field? Yes, it’s reasonable to guess that both the EU and India are large and democratic enough to launch their own AI ￰30￱ that case, we’d have 10 public-facing platforms to choose ￰31￱ are more platforms than the ones listed above out there, such as those in the military, but they serve a different ￰32￱ AI companies listed above target the general public and might be the new “FAANG” group if AI development keeps progressing as it has.

“AI8” could be a fitting abbreviation? But you can’t buy DeepSeek on the stock market, unlike the old FAANG companies, which are all available on ￰33￱ three FAANG companies overlap with “AI8”: Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), and ￰34￱ Netflix can make a comeback once AI can generate full-feature-length movies? Perplexity is another company that’s gotten a lot of attention, even though they don’t develop their own AI engine. Instead, they adapt others’ engines for their search service, allowing Perplexity users to switch between multiple AI ￰35￱ a user, you could benefit from this, at least from a privacy standpoint, since your data is stored with Perplexity rather than with Microsoft or ￰36￱ is one really safer than the other?

AI is still growing ChatGPT is still growing rapidly in 2025, even though Google has managed to slow the churn from search to chat by introducing its own AI summaries. Still, it seems like ChatGPT is the big winner compared to the ￰37￱ first-mover advantage is strong, and the letters “ChatGPT” has become synonymous with LLM’s, kinda like the word “Jacuzzi” is used for most hot bath tubs, whatever the ￰38￱ instance, Elon Musk’s challenger X hasn’t made much of an impression lately. There’s nothing functionally that really stands out about Grok compared to the other ￰39￱ we’re seeing instead is that an AI service’s unique traits only make headlines at ￰40￱ was a bit more sarcastic than the others, which generated some ￰41￱ prefer ChatGPT’s “personalities.” All the AI models above employ censorship in various ￰42￱ try to get DeepSeek to comment on sensitive political ￰43￱ refuses to answer such questions about China.

It’s pretty clear that no AI today can compete without modern chips from Nvidia, even if DeepSeek claims to use them more efficiently than OpenAI does. I asked DeepSeek about how the service has ￰44￱ itself replied that its parent company acquired more than 10,000 Nvidia GPUs before the sanctions were ￰45￱ China has been turning away from imported processing chips, working on developing their own lines of GPU’s. Rumor has it that they now have over 50,000 such GPUs—perhaps significantly ￰46￱ if you just have good enough AI algorithms, you ￰47￱ is a prime ￰48￱ to the prompt: “Humans reporting with AI reporters following” AI can still disrupt In other words, whoever develops the best social media algorithm has a shot at wiping out the ￰49￱ like how Google dominated search for ￰50￱ that more and more people are leaving Twitter/X, a new AI could step in and take over that role.

Personally, I don’t think all of today’s players will ￰51￱ revenues do not match the ￰52￱ Musk’s X is fragmented in many ￰53￱ hasn’t been very responsive over the years and hasn’t built much user ￰54￱ never responded to ￰55￱ actually arrogantly dismissed users’ wishes for decades, because they didn’t have to do ￰56￱ example; they’ve always neglected to provide decent ￰57￱ they kept those paid links at the top of the search page for as many years as they could, never developing the search ￰58￱ short, they did everything to maximize profits while doing as little as possible for the users. That’s how powerful the PageRank invention was—it fended off all challengers for ￰59￱ they’re trying to regain growth, much of which has shifted to ￰60￱ AI?

These days, AI platforms are better and faster at answering questions than the old Google ever ￰61￱ it’s high time Google faces real ￰62￱ thanks to this competition from OpenAI, Alphabet can now keep its Chrome browser, as Cryptopolitan reported on recently . Now, the question remains if the current crop of LLM (Large Language Model) AIs can turn a profit in the ￰63￱ technologies are often overhyped at the start, but underestimated in the long ￰64￱ first integrates a well-functioning social network into their AI might dominate the entire market for the coming ￰65￱ we see a lot of signs that companionship is a possible profitable avenue for AI ￰66￱ offer therapy, or a friendly chat partner, like in the movie ￰67￱ could lead to even lonelier individuals, and even psychosis .

I also note that no one in the news industry recommend AI as a platform for news ￰68￱ people outside the field do ￰69￱ obviously have not tested whether the “news” AI provides is actually news at ￰70￱ time I test the various AI platforms on news topics, the result is the same: no AI can distinguish today’s news from yesterday’s, or from six months or six years ￰71￱ articles are too similar over the ￰72￱ the same events repeat, which confuses the AI ￰73￱ are exceptions of course, if the news events are very simple and unique, and your question is tailored to that ￰74￱ times the AIs manage to get their replies correct, but sometimes not. That’s not a good basis for news ￰75￱ can usually keep track of timelines and who’s ￰76￱ platforms, however, often serve up old, confusing, and outright erroneous news, often omitting important parts of the ￰77￱ you only notice if you double-check the information your AI is providing.

But, you interject; the LLM (Large Language Model) AI engines will become better, so they will be able to tell what is news in the future? No, due to the nature of an LLM. It’s a hallucinating machine to its ￰78￱ LLM doesn’t know what reality ￰79￱ cannot successfully differentiate between fantasy and the real world, between PR, marketing, lies, propaganda and ￰80￱ LLM’s will continue to hallucinate. So, is it possible to replace traditional news sources with an AI delivering updates?

The answer is clearly: No. Because; answer this: w hat’s an acceptable error rate for a news service, in your view?