First things first: the fear of AI writing replacing that of humans is a big, over-cooked, red herring. True, the people polled can’t always tell the difference between work by ChatGPT and a human author but think about it. Not our type: Machine writing can’t live up to the human experience (Image: Keystone-France/Getty Images)The study suggests that stories composed by computers lack nuance, complexity or ambiguity. Which brings me swiftly onto journalism and the renewed importance of the human editor (I would say that, of course). Much has been made of the capacity of AI to aggregate news but let’s not forget who’s gathering it.