I see a use case where a trusted AI agent could step in and play the role that the unbiased journalists of past generations used to play-filtering out bias/disinformation in real time on our static screens and in future augmented/virtual reality environments.
Wish I could share your optimism. Where would we find a trusted AI agent? So far, AI tools are nothing but algorithms that can be tweaked endlessly. There's also the question of prompts used by humans. I did a quick experiment just now - I asked ChatGPT to write a short piece about the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, from the point of view of the killer and another one from the point of view of the Austrians.
The first text describes the killer as "a hero who dared to defy the might of kings and emperors", while the second text puts it like this: "Gavrilo Princip, a misguided radical fueled by nationalist fervor, saw fit to extinguish that beacon of peace with a single shot from his pistol."
Were I still a journalist I would upload the version that fitted with my employer's agenda.
Maybe, sometime in the future, we might develop the wise robots Asimov dreamed of, but that's not gonna happen in our lifetime I'm afraid.
Otherwise, yes, AI can be great. I mean the texts were quite good and delivered in 30 seconds. Back in the day, I'd wait for at least an hour to get such a text from one of my colleagues.
It all depends on how you train the AI (so you REALLY have to trust the dev team). The AI has to be fed a huge swath and variety of data and transparency must be built into the algo so teams can see how it's coming to conclusions. It will be a very scary day when the first AI is turned completely loose. There's really no way of knowing what it will do until that genie is out of the bottle. Very interesting about your ChatGPT experience! It's fun to play with. The Grok AI on X (Twitter) is also getting very competent. Tesla is prepping to launch an AI voice assistant in their cars too, that's coming any day now. It's a strange and wonderful new world when it comes to tech, hopefully it doesn't lean too far into the dystopian direction! I see how useful something like ChatGPT could be for a professional journalist. It could produce a pretty good first draft way faster than any human.