AI's Unrelenting Grip on Journalism: The Latest Casualty is Australia's Age and SMH The recent announcement by Nine Entertainment to axe 30 newsroom jobs at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age has sent shockwaves through the Australian journalism community.
Beneath this decision lies a more profound issue: the unyielding march of artificial intelligence into the very fabric of our media. Nine's own history with AI generated news summaries is telling.
A University of Sydney report found that Microsoft Copilot, a chatbot designed to summarize complex articles, consistently prioritized US or European media over local Australian journalism.