Because a significant chunk of what gets passed off as journalism on such sites is just writing copy – for example, regurgitating press releases, or repackaging the work of another outlet that actually did do the legwork of investigative journalism. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with using AI tools to speed up the task of summarizing some other text for republishing, but I do question the value of such work in the first place.
It’s going to be a long, long time until artificial intelligence can do the work of a true investigative journalist.