I think there's a small chance that LLMs will actually increase understanding in media (for a while at least). The press release copypaste and verbatim lobbyist

I think there's a small chance that LLMs will actually increase understanding in media (for a while at least). The press release copypaste and verbatim lobbyist statement printing is at least in part just due to hurry and the journalists not understanding the subject matter very well. With LLMs you could get even some background or context to the stories with perhaps even a hint of critical "thinking". Although more probably the press releases will be more and more just passed through LLMs to match the paper's "style". Most publishing is not in the business of increasing understanding. It is difficult to get a business to understand, when its revenue depends on it not understanding.