Here’s a warning for journalists seduced by shiny new AI toys: don’t be fooled. E&P columnist and Philadelphia Inquirer digital editor Rob Tornoe pulls no punches as he lays out how AI, far from being the future of news, may actually be accelerating its decline. From Google gutting referral traffic to cartoonists getting ripped off by bots, the evidence is piling up. Tornoe’s take? “AI is a parlor trick — and we’re falling for it.”