About whether AI answer engines summarizing news will undercut news outlets and original reporting.
Has this happened?
Yes 33 (23%)Not sure 69 (49%)No 39 (28%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI answer engines summarizing news will undercut news outlets and original reporting.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
My brother writes sports copy for a local news outlet.
I'll just paste the text he sent me when I asked basically the same question.
"I'll worry about this when AI can watch baseball and make sense of a manager getting ejected."
I think "news summaries" are going to get blown up by AI reading all of the other news articles that exist about something, but ... someone has to actually write the first draft. Back to sports: we're a long way from an AI watching a ballgame and understanding why, exactly, a manager had his pitcher hit the next batter, or why a certain homerun was so crucial.