The Next Big Idea in News Media
People hate the news. Because not only do they get some small facts wrong, explanations even more wrong, but the normative context and word choices belie a belief system that huge numbers of people disagree with.
News media tried to solve this problem by reporting "just the facts" without any contextualization, choosing the most neutral words they could. You might think that would be the perfect news that you would want to get your news from. But it is not. You will find it boring. The viewership numbers of that kind of thing plummet. It is far better to give the *wrong* context and infuriate you than to give no context.
Well, what if you could give a personalized context to everybody? With A.I. now we can. We can have "just the facts" neutral news fed into a personalized (or group personalized) A.I. which contextualizes the news for you making it interesting again without infuriating you, and IMHO people will *trust* this news far more than what they currently get.
What do you all think? Should we take this serious, fund it and set it afloat?
Mike Dilger /
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2025-04-12 23:00:48
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