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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by finndark on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:55PM (#25666252)
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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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by enraged_camel on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:56PM (#25666272)
"We need an AI" is the worst possible suggestion, considering it's social media revenue maximization algorithms that got us to this stage.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by thekyle on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:09PM (#25666799)
Recommendation algorithms are completely unrelated to summarization algorithms.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by Izkata on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:48PM (#25680388)
> Recommendation algorithms are completely unrelated to summarization algorithms.

They can however be as dangerous, for example:

> Recommendation algorithms are summarization algorithms

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by finndark on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:14PM (#25666423)
Its bad reasoning to shoot the messenger even when its a bot!
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