Oh automated news items are already quite advanced. News outlets like NYTimes, Associated Press, probably Reuters and some others, have all made large investments in automation for content generation. AP has been doing that for many years, well before Chatgpt. But we should be very very skeptical of further automation of news generation because of the enormous potential for bias, either intentional or not. Imagine if Rupert Murdoch had an algorithm to write every news item with exactly the same slant that he decided when he woke up that morning - basically pairing AI with propaganda and putting huge power in a small number of hands. I am not looking forward to that replacement