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I'm going to say it: news articles are bad (and always have been) and AI will make it better. The problem is that they usually provide too much context, or not
by baron816 4y ago
I'm going to say it: news articles are bad (and always have been) and AI will make it better.
The problem is that they usually provide too much context, or not nearly enough. So you either get bored reading it, or don't have the right information to know what's really going on. ie, it's not personalized.
Let's take the stuff going on with SVB right now. Your typical news article is going to start with new information, provide some additional context briefing the reader on how it happened, then go further into depth on what the new info its providing, or just ramble on with additional filler. But the reader doesn't know if its going to actually provide more useful info to them. And that's an actually interesting and complex story. How many news articles do you come across thats pretty much all filler, especially on social media?
AI would make articles interactive. "Tell more more about fractional banking", "does the Fed's statement mean this is a bailout?", "what does this mean for the broader economy?", "what are economists/politicians saying about the government's actions?" are all questions you could ask and get reasonable responses.
- hedora 4y agoYou can already ask all these questions and get instantaneous answers from sources that are at least archived on archive.org With AI, propagandists will be able to feed you personalized disinformation in complete privacy. If you think I’m overly pessimistic, recall what happened with Cambridge Analytics.