Artificial Intelligence Application and the End of Information and Reality in journalism: A Critical Review

Abstract

The concept of artificial intelligence is one of the most used in the human field because its algorithms dominate and control the different digital spaces. Therefore, this analytical critical paper focuses on the effect of artificial intelligence on journalism, mainly after its applications have penetrated the edition and
newsrooms, dominated the content of social media and controlled the movements of the users to manufacture the content and program the awareness. Based on this, our main question is “What will be the fate of reality, information, journalism, and journalists in the era of artificial intelligence? How did artificial intelligence algorithms besiege the digital content on social media, falsify the awareness, and mislead the international public opinion? Our findings show that artificial intelligence applications gave journalism another dimension (the speed of data collection and procession, the news production…etc). However, they are a threat to the news’ credibility, transparency, and depiction of reality due to the falsification, manipulation, fabrication, racism, and injustice towards the issues. In addition, they are a new tool for domination and continuous control of individuals and their freedoms.