I do not honestly believe that AI will help verify true content. How would AI know what is true and what isn't? Personally I think the inverse will happen... AI LLMs will consume all the content available, and then start consuming content created by GAI in a kind of trash-spiral... potentially making the internet useless for news or content.
Totally agree that publications that concentrated on 'getting the story out first' in order to be the ones to go viral killed off the industry, but what I think is a massive shame is all the private equity firms that have bought up smaller local newspapers and then sold them for parts. Journalism has been attacked on multiple fronts and that truly only benefits billionaires and corrupt politicians.
The AIs can reference and resource check, essentially creating a network of cross-references that can categorize based on likelihoods. They can look at millions of data points and apply a confidence score, based on all kinds of bits of information as to whether something is likely to be true or not. There are lots of ways for AI to categorize and evaluate content, as well as identify sources of Gen-AI. I also suspect that more and more people will opt-in to human-built content, and people will want "proof of human" checks, providing more data points.
Perhaps it always was, but "back in the day" the consumer was more interested in getting useful information, but now we are just looking to be entertained.
Oh. I didn't know AI could do that. I'd be super curious to see how accurate those confidence scores get.