Internets Is Mostly AI Fake News?!?

Caveat . . .

Aggregators are nothing new. 

The worry now is that content distribution amid a contentious campaign 2024 election season is becoming more effective.

One of these days, the machines will indulge in fart jokes and sharing the latest dopey KCMO press conferences that otherwise escape public scrutiny . . . This will render TKC even more obsolete in a world wherein so many of our human colleagues often seem robotic in their tireless devotion to talking points crafted by elites on K street. 

Here's a note we found on Drudge that's worth sharing for those who might not have seen it yet.

Hundreds of sites mimicking news outlets –- many of them powered by artificial intelligence -- have cropped up in recent months, fueling an explosion of polarizing or false narratives that are stoking alarm as the race for the White House intensifies.

At least 1,265 "pink slime" outlets -- politically motivated websites that present themselves as independent local news outlets -- have been identified, the US-based research group NewsGuard said in a report.

By comparison, 1,213 websites of local newspapers were operating in the United States last year, according to Northwestern University's "local news initiative" project.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Phony 'news' portals surpass US newspaper sites, researchers say

Partisan websites masquerading as media outlets now outnumber American newspaper sites, a research group that tracks misinformation said Tuesday, highlighting a local news crisis in a year of high-stakes elections.At least 1,265 "pink slime" outlets -- politically motivated websites that present themselves as independent local news outlets -- have been identified, the US-based research group NewsGuard said in a report.