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Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

It's not all bad. Artifact uses "AI" to change clickbait titles into more descriptive ones for example.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Still a slippery-slope, IMO.

When something (news) is, by nature, designed to inform you of the current state of reality, introducing any process that hallucinates (read: makes shit up) should not be anywhere near them.

People are free to use LLM plugins to "de-clickbait" headlines as they want, but keep that out of the news process itself.

Just my 2 cents on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Slippery slope is a logical fallacy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

speaking even as an "ai" hater, even the worst LLM hallucination isn't nearly as bad as purpose made clickbait

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried artifact for a bit, and the blog spam was so bad. Stuff would get promoted that would’ve never made it out of new on Reddit or Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, little control over presented articles was what led me to drop it when I was considering reddit alternatives but I'd kill for that de-clickbaiting feature to make way to RSS readers and link aggregators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The amount of Yanko Design spam in my feed was driving me nuts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah. There are definitely some novel uses and dev efforts. I’m terrified of the day AI data and user interaction data gets monetized though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If people use clickbaity titles in the first place it's cause they work, not because they don't know how to write informative ones...

Edit: my bad, didn't know what Artifact was...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It's for the Artifact users.