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What’s the problem and why is it newsworthy? Serious question.
by yumraj 2y ago
What’s the problem and why is it newsworthy?
Serious question.
- tracerbulletx 2y agoBecause almost all news is just looking for a reason, any reason, to support some kind of narrative of angst and outrage to drive engagement.
- drdaeman 2y agoJoke conspiracy theory: it's all a conspiracy of mass media to paint AI as bad as they can, so when it becomes more energy-efficient it won't be able to disrupt their deceptive practices by de-hyping the headlines replacing them with impartial summaries (since all LLMs really can do are text transformations), thus upsetting the hidden attention economy. /bs :o) For real, though, is these something already out there that solves the clickbait problem?
- _carbyau_ 2y agoIs there a browser plugin that: 1. clicks the link 2. reads the article 3. rewrites the link title in less clickbaity terms? It seems possible.
- SauntSolaire 2y agoFeels like a good idea for Kagi to incorporate
- jpk 2y agoThey kind of already do this. There's a "Summarize page" item in the hamburger dots next to each search result that appears to send an LLM off to read the page, and fill out an element under the search result with a summary. So, more about the content than the title, but I think that's even better.
- a2128 2y agoHalf of the rewritten titles will be "Review Our Privacy Agreement" and "Trial Over - Subscribe to Read Our Articles" :)
- _carbyau_ 2y agoThat right there would be worth it though! Now I don't waste my time clicking it. :-)
- wahnfrieden 2y ago[flagged]
- jasonlotito 2y agoA major AI company has changed its policy regarding military use of AI. The only way that isn’t newsworthy is if you think none of that is important: AI, the military, Facebook’s AI efforts, or its policies regarding all three. That is what is newsworthy. Why do you think none of that matters?
- yumraj 2y agoIsn’t it obvious that militaries, all over the world, will be using AI, now or later. So, this is US military using AI from a US headquartered company.
- gsk22 2y agoJust because something is obvious or inevitable doesn't preclude it from being newsworthy. It almost makes it more newsworthy: "look, it finally happened!"