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why would they hire journalists to do this? It doesn't seem like it takes much skill at all to pick a story and write a short summary of it.
by jccalhoun 11y ago
why would they hire journalists to do this? It doesn't seem like it takes much skill at all to pick a story and write a short summary of it.
- jonathankoren 11y agoI wonder that myself. I think it has more to do with standard corporate over thinking about what's skills are actually required for a job. It certainly make it easier to say, "We want someone to write titles and snippets of news stories. Who does that? Journalists. Cool, let's get some of those." disclaimer: i worked on that fb product.
- n72 11y agoMy guess is they needed the best seed they could generate for their ML algos.