LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

[janice shell]

The internet has made everybody an author, a critic, an expert, a ‘‘journalist.’’ Thus, the revenue model for authentic, professional-quality print journalism — ads and subscriptions — is a skeleton.

That is absolutely true. There're still a few good newspapers and magazines left, but not everyone can write for The Atlantic.

Deep fakes, which are the evil spawn of AI, are now so convincing that, starting Jan. 1, California schools will be required to teach media literacy to all children as part of English, science, math and history lessons so they can recognize fake news. The first question they will be taught to ask: ‘‘Who created this?’’

That needs to be taught in every school in the country.

SI’s fraud was a shallow fake, I suppose. But already-giant Microsoft has built a fleet of what it calls ‘‘office copilots,’’ AI ‘‘assistants’’ using OpenAI’s technology that a writer can talk to and use like, well, a co-writer.

Absolutely disgusting.