AI Content Filtering Machine Summary, Komdigi Promotes Fair Compensation

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Communication and Digital assesses that the biggest threat to the press today is not the presence of artificial intelligence (AI) that replaces journalists, but the practice of taking journalistic values and works without fair returns.

According to the Deputy Minister of Communication and Information, Nezar Patria, it is the AI engine that absorbs media content and presents it back in the form of summaries that make the media lose traffic, revenue, and its strategic position as a public reference.

"The biggest threat to journalism today is not that journalists are replaced by artificial intelligence, but that the value of journalism is extracted without a fair return to the media," he said, quoted Tuesday, February 10.

Nezar said that AI disruption touches the entire media ecosystem chain. Thus, the impact is not only on the editorial room, but also on the quality of information received by the public.

He emphasized that machine summaries are not equivalent to journalistic work. Journalism presents context, a discipline of verification, and the human face behind events.

"What the public reads is not a journalistic work, but rather a machine summary. There are many nuances and humanity that are lost," said Nezar further.

Nezar emphasized that the future of the media is determined by journalism that cannot be replicated by machines. Field coverage, investigations, and community stories are the differentiators in the midst of a flood of synthetic content.

Therefore, to maintain the public information ecosystem, the rights of publishers, transparency of content use by AI technology, and the principle of fair compensation for the media industry are part of the direction of national digital policies.

"This step is aimed at maintaining the sustainability of quality journalism and protecting the public's right to complete and reliable information," said Nezar.