Petra van Cronenburg<p>A new wave of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> is now targeting <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Expert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Expert</span></a> voices are needed, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/experts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>experts</span></a> should be quoted. And people don't want to quote Twitter so often anymore.<br>Problem: these experts don't exist. Pure <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> fantasy. Journalist request services specialise on this lucrative "service".<br>An <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/investigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investigation</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/pressgazette.co.uk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pressgazette.co.uk</span></a></span> - <a href="https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/virtual-reality-the-widely-quoted-media-experts-who-are-not-what-they-seem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/</span><span class="invisible">digital-journalism/virtual-reality-the-widely-quoted-media-experts-who-are-not-what-they-seem/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/investigativeJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investigativeJournalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/checkSources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>checkSources</span></a></p>