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>This is a non-story, we already have these tools, this just adds an AI summary layer on top. This is a story. With ad blockers, the assumption was that the or
by falcor84 2y ago
>This is a non-story, we already have these tools, this just adds an AI summary layer on top.
This is a story. With ad blockers, the assumption was that the original page as a whole is valuable, but users just don't want to pay the cost of the ads and other obtrusive elements. But now we're opening up the question of what exactly is it on that page that's of actual value - is it just the text, or only some of the text, or only the "facts" expressed on the page, or maybe something even more abstract, such as how the page corroborates a fact on another page.
I find this to be a really interesting question, both on a practical level and on an epistemological level - what is it that we as readers actually (want to) get from a resource?
- CaptainFever 2y agoFair enough, it is a very interesting question indeed. Though I think precedence might be found in newspapers copying each other's stories and "facts can't be copyrighted" kind of stuff.