Human-written blogspam is why AI summaries and answers are remotely useful instead of just reading the original articles.

This is true and hardly a secret and the fact the Economist is being forgetful here is itself information.

So the actual question here is what are the (financial, geopolitical, social engineering) incentives for the stakeholders of the Economist (please spare me "journalism" tropes) to poo poo AI in this manner.