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by subcosmos 2990 days ago
Just imagine ... that some day in the future journalism will be AI based, and will generate entire articles tailored to your viewing habits based on extensive psych profiling and AB testing to maximize clicks and screen time!

The content need not be true, but at least everyone will be happy with their preferred writing styles....

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

2 comments

What if I dont want the content Im most interested in. It'd probably give me the computer scoentost version of tabloid, but I prefer making myself read things that I don't fully grasp.
There will be a slider for that.
That actually sounds quite appealing to me. In recent years I noticed that the writing style of a book had a much bigger part in my ability to derive value from it than its content.

If I could read fiction that is written exactly for me I would love it. And as for "non-fiction", I reference check any particularly interesting claim anyway, so I'd be happy to try and use the AI for that too. The way I see it, reading is much more about exercising the brain in thinking about new things than about learning new facts.