The New York Times editorial on AI journalism

I was reading yesterday about NYT's new policy allowing journalists to use ChatGPT for drafting and research while disclosing where it helped, and I can't decide if this is a practical compromise or just

I keep coming back to their point about provenance over accuracy. We're entering an era where a fact can be true but indistinguishable from a fabrication, and the editorial board is right that journalism's job shifts from "reporting what happened"