AI summaries can’t protect you from media bias, here’s why

Key Highlights

• (Representative file photo) Earlier this year, The Guardian showcased a study that warned of a “devastating impact” on online news media as search results are replaced by AI summaries, claiming that it has caused up to 80% fewer click-throughs to news sites.
• But experts fear that AI summaries can’t be trusted to produce factual reporting.
• Last week, in an interview on “No Spin News,” hosted by American Journalist Bill O’Reilly, Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis at Media Research Center (US-based), said AI news summaries cannot be accurate due to their dependency on sources that may be biased but are still considered “trustworthy” by the AI.
• It doesn’t matter if it’s Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other similar AI platforms, they still can’t produce an accurate news summary due to the same issue, according to Graham.
• Media bias happens when journalists and news producers become prejudiced, and it can be a common occurrence in mass media; AI can’t filter it, not yet at least.