I suspect a lot of opinion pieces are already being written by AI and not journalists.
And as far as brand new news about say, a murder, I bet the journalists are already using AI to write any background info.
I had a freezer accuse me of being an AI Bot.
If had denied it, the Freeper would no doubt have said “Denying it proves you are a AI Bot. That is just what an AI Bot would do.”
What I find strange is how many very short articles in the newspaper are written by 3 or more writers? How can it take 3 people to write a 3 or 4 paragraph story?