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by finndark 1992 days ago
As soon as the media got away from reporting "Who, What, When, Where, Why and How" the whole system fell apart.

Today every newscaster wants to project his personality onto the news and the results are deadly. We need an AI that strips news down to the 5W's+H and makes it available.

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"We need an AI" is the worst possible suggestion, considering it's social media revenue maximization algorithms that got us to this stage.
Recommendation algorithms are completely unrelated to summarization algorithms.
> Recommendation algorithms are completely unrelated to summarization algorithms.

They can however be as dangerous, for example:

> Recommendation algorithms are summarization algorithms

Its bad reasoning to shoot the messenger even when its a bot!