>This sounds a direct abrogation of journalistic standards by the Ars editorial team.

We depended on an ecosystem of news and journalism to keep our polities informed.

However, if that ecosystem is starving it will increasingly fail to live up to its standards and we can expect these failures to impact us increasingly.

I am not defending bad journalists, nor creating an excuse to tolerate such behavior in the future.

I am describing the macro trend we are facing, the failure state we can expect, and asking what happens if nothing grows to replace it.

The NYT earns revenue through games more than journalism and ads. Wikipedia is seeing reduced visitors due to AI summaries, and this leads to lower donations. A review site I used went into a full paywall.

I don't really see how Ars or most other sites will be able to earn revenue and pay salaries in this bot first environment.