>They did this to themselves.
And who set this bad direction? The CEO. This hardly adds to the case for not replacing him with an AI.
And it's not like some CEO decided "hey, let's pivot to churning out low-quality clickbait because I really like that stuff." They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising and the consolidation of news readership into a small number of well-known publications. Though I do agree that it's equally unfair to blame journalists for this.
Indeed. As with almost everything else terrible about the world today, the root of the problem is targeted-advertising-based business models.
Only if you consider it to be inevitable that their primary goal is to make themselves and their owners preposterously rich.