Artificial intelligence programs now write as many online articles as humans, according to digital marketing firm Graphite. That reality has both negative and positive consequences.
On the negative side, some AI-generated articles feature information designed to deceive for political or commercial gain. Also, AI-created articles often contain factual errors and hallucinations.
In addition, AI-generated articles have the potential to flood the internet with misinformation and crowd out fact-checked human-created articles.
Plus, bad actors are making it hard to tell what’s real and what’s fake news on the internet.
As with all new technologies, there are opportunities for benefits and harm.
On the plus side, AI-written articles could serve “news deserts” – areas without human reporters.
If they have access to digitized police and court records, AI systems could quickly generate reports on crimes and legal actions. They could do the same with local government actions and provide summaries of live public meetings if they’re streamed online.
Further, AI systems could monitor location-based social media for incidents of interest, especially photos and videos. It could provide summaries of what is going on locally.
So, there’s likely good and bad with AI-written articles.
Photo: Graphic from Deutsche Bank report.
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AI Now Writes as Many Online Articles as Humans (Graphite; May 2026)
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