And the Telecommunications Act that Clinton signed in 96 let corporate media consolidate all of the news organizations under a small group of umbrellas, making it easier to use news reporting to push political agendas.
I think the part that concerns me most is how the Washington Post and Politico were sourcing (as in, citing as reference) this AI-riddled site in their articles, which contained stolen content from those very sites in the first place.
The race to publish is causing hallucinations even in human-written content because no one can be bothered to fact check anymore, not even news publishers themselves.
The circular sourcing problem has been going on for a long time, but the modern internet has amplified it to levels of extreme absurdity. There isn't a solution because humans are inherently lazy and fact checking requires effort. When the majority of your consumer base doesn't care, then there's no financial incentive to care on the part of the publishers. Maybe I'm being too nihilistic, but that's how I see it these days.
