In our article "Artificial Intelligence and the Public Arena" Ralph Schroeder and I discuss how this development leads to structural shifts within the public arena. academic.oup.com/ct/article/3...

Artificial intelligence and the public arena

Abstract. The public arena relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to ever greater degrees. Media structures hosting the public arena—such as Facebook, TikT

Whereas querying a search engine returns a list of links to topically relevant sources, LLM-enabled search returns answers in text form, (...) meaning people are guided to AI-based synopses and accounts, not directly to sources and actors within the public arena.