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The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news

25 points · 10 comments · giuliomagnifico

  1. syntaxing · · focus · HN ↗
    I like this so much. Maybe I’m romanticizing but hoping tools like this give local news a chance against monopolies like Sinclair Broadcasting.
    1. cyanydeez · · focus · HN ↗
      It'll merely generate hyper local bots that generate hyper local slop. The media landscape is downhill.
      1. binarymax · · focus · HN ↗
        Are search summaries slop?
        1. ginko · · focus · HN ↗
          Yeah
          1. binarymax · · focus · HN ↗
            It’s not a blanket ‘Yeah’. It’s a ‘sometimes’ and that sometimes depends on use. Distilling down a whole days worth of research is one of the best uses of AI.
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