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Comment by yumraj | Hacker News Reader

What’s the problem and why is it newsworthy? Serious question.

A major AI company has changed its policy regarding military use of AI.

The only way that isn’t newsworthy is if you think none of that is important: AI, the military, Facebook’s AI efforts, or its policies regarding all three.

That is what is newsworthy. Why do you think none of that matters?

Isn’t it obvious that militaries, all over the world, will be using AI, now or later.

So, this is US military using AI from a US headquartered company.

Just because something is obvious or inevitable doesn't preclude it from being newsworthy.

It almost makes it more newsworthy: "look, it finally happened!"

Because almost all news is just looking for a reason, any reason, to support some kind of narrative of angst and outrage to drive engagement.

Joke conspiracy theory: it's all a conspiracy of mass media to paint AI as bad as they can, so when it becomes more energy-efficient it won't be able to disrupt their deceptive practices by de-hyping the headlines replacing them with impartial summaries (since all LLMs really can do are text transformations), thus upsetting the hidden attention economy. /bs

:o)

For real, though, is these something already out there that solves the clickbait problem?

Is there a browser plugin that:

1. clicks the link 2. reads the article 3. rewrites the link title in less clickbaity terms?

It seems possible.

Half of the rewritten titles will be "Review Our Privacy Agreement" and "Trial Over - Subscribe to Read Our Articles" :)

That right there would be worth it though! Now I don't waste my time clicking it. :-)

Feels like a good idea for Kagi to incorporate

They kind of already do this. There's a "Summarize page" item in the hamburger dots next to each search result that appears to send an LLM off to read the page, and fill out an element under the search result with a summary. So, more about the content than the title, but I think that's even better.

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