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> It will never cease to amaze how how a paragraph of information from Nintendo (or anyone) can be turned into a long article likely focused on SEO that doesn't
by dspillett 3y ago
> It will never cease to amaze how how a paragraph of information from Nintendo (or anyone) can be turned into a long article likely focused on SEO that doesn't really say anything.
That is only going to get more common, until a time (which may never come) that both the general public and search/index algorithms are entirely numb to it. There are a few outlets that keep getting promoted at me by facebook (“suggested for you” links despite the fact I've shown little or no interest in the past, in fact actively hidden previous content) where when I do look at the article it reads like it is either AI generated or is deliberately written to appear like some automated construct put together by an entity that didn't understand, or even hasn't seen, the event/show/what-ever it is reporting on. The volume of that sort of thing has increased significantly (or maybe is just being promoted to me significantly more) in the last year or so.
- inanutshellus 3y agoI'd suspect that a "gister" (as in "give me the gist") website comprised of a ChatGPT/LLM with retrieval-augmentation would be able to destroy this behavior. 1. Some gister app scans your favorite site for new articles 2. Gister sends LLM the news outlets you're interested in 3. LLM gives you the gist without the sensation of all the news. ... Honestly I suspect it'll be so distruptive that it'll probably require all news outlets paywall or die.
- vlunkr 3y agoSo articles will be written by AI, then we'll use a different AI to condense them into actual information. Very cool future, good work everyone.
- wussboy 3y agoAnother AI to understand it and we can remove humans completely from the loop.
- moritonal 3y agoI'll never cease being pained that we're in the future where we taught a machine to understand poetry before we had it replace all the deadly jobs of this world.
- joshspankit 3y agoAt some point it will all be done so quickly that a single bit of information could make it to 1000 sites having been expanded, reduced, contextualized, humanized, trimmed, clickbaited, unclickbaited, and written in hundreds of styles.... ...all before a single human can read a single word.
- orange_fritter 3y agoI use "The Boring Report" for this. It helped wean me off sensational websites, including hackernews, because I was able to get my "fix" without addictive toxicity. Some of the summaries were hilarious though, like five sentences explaining that an announcement was made, but not the actual announcement.