Are there any efficient sources of news?
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Ideally something with decent AI summaries AND headlines.
For a lot of news, a well written headline is all I really want to see first so I can decide if I want to read more. Then a good summary is often all I need. Most articles are loaded with garbage fluff and some random person's opinion (or a hand picked person for a sensational opinion) making me simply not want to read articles.
I have been trying ground news (paid) for a few months, and it's AI is pretty sad. The headlines are just direct copies from one of the sources, and can often be very far from what the summary says (I assume it miscategorized an article about a different subject into the bucket, and happened to grab that one's headline to use). Oh, and I don’t care about baseball scores, but I do care about sports. I don't seem to be able to tell it that as it doesn't have a label for that.
All in all, this is really the kind of thing LLM AIs should be good at... language. So I would hope someone out there sells a service to get me news efficiently.
Edit: let's pretend we are not on reddit. If you think my request is bad, you probably are making assumptions that aren't true. So rather than tell me I am wrong for wanting something, say nothing at all. Some people who actually want to help will eventually try to do so.
To quote my boss 'don't trust AI, it tends to hallucinate.'
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What do you do when an issue is more complicated that a single sentence can describe?
Anyways, I like wikipedia's portal of current events for world news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
I'm not says I won't read anything longer than a single sentence. Just that lots of current events can be boiled down to a short summary. A sentence should tell me the topic, if I care about that topic, I can read the summary. And if it is complex and interesting, I can read the article.
But when the headlines are designed to be misleading, I waste a lot of time finding out that it isn't really about what it claims to be. -
I use a RSS reader and sub to many sources. The title of the article is nearly always descriptive enough.
AI can't last given our inability to produce enough electricity and water.
Best to think for yourself.
AIs aren't going anywhere. Most of the news is written by AI anyway. So what better to read the news and convert it back to the raw information the author gave it.
I find the titles are often intentionally misleading to get clicks, I am trying to avoid that.
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You can ask to summarize particular news articles to the Kagi Assistant. But I don't see why you wouldn't use any news aggregator and read what catches your eyes
Clickbait headlines is one of the things I am tired of. I was hoping for something that could generate honest headlines for starters.
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To quote my boss 'don't trust AI, it tends to hallucinate.'
Very true on technical stuff. It adds features to software that don't exist, but should. But it should be better at reading language.
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Ideally something with decent AI summaries AND headlines.
For a lot of news, a well written headline is all I really want to see first so I can decide if I want to read more. Then a good summary is often all I need. Most articles are loaded with garbage fluff and some random person's opinion (or a hand picked person for a sensational opinion) making me simply not want to read articles.
I have been trying ground news (paid) for a few months, and it's AI is pretty sad. The headlines are just direct copies from one of the sources, and can often be very far from what the summary says (I assume it miscategorized an article about a different subject into the bucket, and happened to grab that one's headline to use). Oh, and I don’t care about baseball scores, but I do care about sports. I don't seem to be able to tell it that as it doesn't have a label for that.
All in all, this is really the kind of thing LLM AIs should be good at... language. So I would hope someone out there sells a service to get me news efficiently.
Edit: let's pretend we are not on reddit. If you think my request is bad, you probably are making assumptions that aren't true. So rather than tell me I am wrong for wanting something, say nothing at all. Some people who actually want to help will eventually try to do so.
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This is why I am thinking AI should be good for this. A lot of news is AI generated now, and specifically instructed to insert fluff.
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Timewise. I want to spend more time reading information on subjects I care about. But I also want to stay lightly informed on other subject that I might care about in the future.
I would buy a radio then.
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Ideally something with decent AI summaries AND headlines.
For a lot of news, a well written headline is all I really want to see first so I can decide if I want to read more. Then a good summary is often all I need. Most articles are loaded with garbage fluff and some random person's opinion (or a hand picked person for a sensational opinion) making me simply not want to read articles.
I have been trying ground news (paid) for a few months, and it's AI is pretty sad. The headlines are just direct copies from one of the sources, and can often be very far from what the summary says (I assume it miscategorized an article about a different subject into the bucket, and happened to grab that one's headline to use). Oh, and I don’t care about baseball scores, but I do care about sports. I don't seem to be able to tell it that as it doesn't have a label for that.
All in all, this is really the kind of thing LLM AIs should be good at... language. So I would hope someone out there sells a service to get me news efficiently.
Edit: let's pretend we are not on reddit. If you think my request is bad, you probably are making assumptions that aren't true. So rather than tell me I am wrong for wanting something, say nothing at all. Some people who actually want to help will eventually try to do so.
With the right prompt, perplexity could do it
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Very true on technical stuff. It adds features to software that don't exist, but should. But it should be better at reading language.
My boss is talking about the AI specifically developed for my institute, which is 'fed' by experts and only runs on the intranet so the Americans can't get their mitts on it. Even THAT AI hallucinates.
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Ideally something with decent AI summaries AND headlines.
For a lot of news, a well written headline is all I really want to see first so I can decide if I want to read more. Then a good summary is often all I need. Most articles are loaded with garbage fluff and some random person's opinion (or a hand picked person for a sensational opinion) making me simply not want to read articles.
I have been trying ground news (paid) for a few months, and it's AI is pretty sad. The headlines are just direct copies from one of the sources, and can often be very far from what the summary says (I assume it miscategorized an article about a different subject into the bucket, and happened to grab that one's headline to use). Oh, and I don’t care about baseball scores, but I do care about sports. I don't seem to be able to tell it that as it doesn't have a label for that.
All in all, this is really the kind of thing LLM AIs should be good at... language. So I would hope someone out there sells a service to get me news efficiently.
Edit: let's pretend we are not on reddit. If you think my request is bad, you probably are making assumptions that aren't true. So rather than tell me I am wrong for wanting something, say nothing at all. Some people who actually want to help will eventually try to do so.
Ditto on Wiki’s Current Events Portal and RSS (which you curate yourself). That’s my current setup, I’ve tried others but keep going back to Wiki and RSS. Good luck!
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My boss is talking about the AI specifically developed for my institute, which is 'fed' by experts and only runs on the intranet so the Americans can't get their mitts on it. Even THAT AI hallucinates.
Yes,they all do, but there is a pattern to what it hallucintes the most and such. So some thing are more reliable than others.
