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It's been less than a year since Facebook's AI accidentally translated Xi Jinping's name as "Mr. Shithole," so I'm gonna take the under on this one ever shipping. https://t.co/x3CXvww30d
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) December 16, 2020
If there's one thing Facebook has too much of, it's nuance. https://t.co/YgwIdGia90
— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) December 16, 2020
I feel sometimes like there is someone in FB HQ whose job is trying to come up with new ways of completely destroying any semblance of intelligence in America. https://t.co/snHhTRHcdC
— Audrey Cooper (@audreyhasnews) December 16, 2020
Can I get just an automated summary?
— Ina Fried (@inafried) December 16, 2020
Software engineers really solving some very specific people’s very specific problems here. (Disclosure, I am a news folk, and I do not love this.) https://t.co/b34GUf92eK
— Adam Rogers (@jetjocko) December 16, 2020
If this actually ever sees the light of day, it will be hilariously short lived and give us all a solid couple months worth of screen grab jokes. https://t.co/1QaEmTUdPf
— Ross Maghielse (@Maghielse) December 16, 2020
FB's TL;DR will apparently also be offering audio narration of full articles and a voice assistant to ask contextual questions about a piece. For example, you could ask "Hey Facebook, how many people will this vaccine help" and it supposedly would spit out an answer.
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 15, 2020
Marissa Mayer once paid a 16-year-old millions of dollars for this very thing when she was at Yahoo. https://t.co/Awe6mPEd1g
— Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) December 16, 2020
Scooping up money generated by journalism, squeezing out specific news orgs with algorithms, doling out small payouts to newsrooms that are just large enough to keep everyone scared of pissing them off, and now using AI to steal our shit? @Facebook is no friend to #1A! https://t.co/E4B2HP6xWT
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) December 16, 2020
CTO Schroepfer commends the company's AI technology. He talks of a principle called "self-supervision" or a way for AI to train itself to detect hate speech and misinfo.
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 15, 2020
As a reminder, here's one departing Facebook employee said about AI last week.https://t.co/eJBodO6fO4 pic.twitter.com/cSCEJm26Ro
You can try to abstract it out. Let's say you jump to beats and try to create an algorithm across Apple reporters. Here's one example: create a summarization algorithm that transfers the text of one longform writer to one that often summarizes them. Shocker: not enough data.
— Matthew Lynley (@mattlynley) December 16, 2020
This sounds exactly like the community reddit bot that has been around for years https://t.co/PTiuqkLe8s
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) December 16, 2020
Or, I don’t know, maybe hire more moderators? https://t.co/NBTZZvzi7Q
— Ryan McCarthy (@mccarthyryanj) December 16, 2020
developing a state-of-the-art AI summarization system (nb: "state-of-the-art" for text summarization right now is apparently about 30-40% word overlap with a reference summary) sounds both way cheaper and way more effective than the small team of human workers who used to do this https://t.co/YdgGWMohxX
— wet tunes 4: the wet cassette (@vogon) December 16, 2020
Facebook seems determined to become a propaganda machine. Whether it is for external actors, or FB itself, this is a bad idea. What is too long and we should not be reading, is *anything* on Facebook. https://t.co/m2iNM7Tm8U
— Dr. S.A. Applin (@AnthroPunk) December 16, 2020
Among the MANY MANY MANY problems with this is the following: there are few widely-read “longform” articles that are read for discrete “takeaways” anyway. The exception is big investigations, which OUTLETS HAVE ALREADY STARTED AGGREGATING THEMSELVES (cf NYT on Trump taxes) https://t.co/kkKgJpGKPV
— Dara Lind (@DLind) December 16, 2020
I mean, I can tell a certain segment of academic citations came from people who just read the abstract so this doesn't seem so novel awful https://t.co/isNSNNzOCt
— thats DOCTOR Science Lizard to Joe ?? (@sciliz) December 16, 2020
Facebook told employees tonight that it’s developing a tool to make TLDRs of news articles so users won’t have to read them that also provides audio narration. https://t.co/6lPW7HtBb5
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) December 16, 2020
I imagine Facebook will fuck this up but in theory isn’t this just a bit like Google’s answers to when the super bowl is? And stuff? https://t.co/ipeyRSF0Te
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) December 16, 2020
TLDR sounds like a useful tool, but when it's done by Facebook you need to think twice. https://t.co/S9Z6DVTKyA
— Bruce Wang ?? (@number5) December 16, 2020
Waiting for Facebook to build a tool that showers news producers with the $ necessary to inform the citizenry.
— Craig Welch (@CraigAWelch) December 16, 2020
It would compensate content producers for the money it makes selling ads when people share news.
You could call it: Facebook. https://t.co/nYwSKBJZyp
Your regular reminder that Facebook has too much money & staff and is just throwing resources at unnecessary products. This is inevitably going to do more harm than good and sow further distrust in actual journalism. https://t.co/Tuf2gfQdeS
— Eric Johnson (hire me to make your podcast better) (@HeyHeyESJ) December 16, 2020
Holy crap I have so many thoughts on this having worked on the problem directly. I think it's safe to say that there is a 99.999% chance this will not work, will be launched anyway as a sub-par product, and then killed because it didn't work. And I WORKED in news for eight years. https://t.co/cFOQRC37Fo
— Matthew Lynley (@mattlynley) December 16, 2020
Facebook is developing a tool to summarize articles so you don't have to read them (specifically, articles by @RMac18 about Facebook's plans to undermine journalism) https://t.co/ihY38JNolY
— Stephanie M. Lee (@stephaniemlee) December 16, 2020
I believe this is called "Twitter". https://t.co/2GBuRsfdVt
— Charles #GetCovered-ba (@charles_gaba) December 16, 2020
Probably feeling like their goal of destroying society is not moving fast enough. https://t.co/KkilCcddIB
— abolish the elf on the shelf in your heart & head (@hypervisible) December 16, 2020
Facebook, the “not a media company” media company, wants to now edit the news for you! Color me just a smidge skeptical.
— Matt Galligan (@mg) December 16, 2020
Not a day passes by where I don’t want to get the band back together and fire Circa back up… https://t.co/6d16craVlu
The very TLDR version for this is there is nowhere near enough data to get a high-fidelity bullet-point version. There is *just* enough variation in writer styles that you need to have an algorithm for every writer, and nearly all writers will not have written enough stories!
— Matthew Lynley (@mattlynley) December 16, 2020
Another problem? Writers change beats! They move companies! They carry some style with them, but you lose structural definition and your algorithm gets thrown off. There are multiple inputs that go from writer (unique), to editor (unique), to managing editor, to style guide.
— Matthew Lynley (@mattlynley) December 16, 2020
Good news everyone! Now instead of people getting news from journalists, they will get it from Facebook’s AI which will summarize the journalists.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) December 16, 2020
This is going to work out AMAZINGLY well! https://t.co/Ni3fKbBENK
This is the worst idea that this terrible company has come up with, and that's saying a lot. https://t.co/2JLrR89Mq6
— Kevin Church (@Kevin_Church) December 16, 2020
"We all get the privilege of seeing the future because we are making it.” https://t.co/papfeh9FsQ
— BuzzFeed Tech (@fwd) December 16, 2020
I can’t wait to see if AI can parse my tone https://t.co/iIhonhYkie
— Elizabeth Lopatto (@mslopatto) December 16, 2020
News folks are not going to love this. Some product manager announced internally a tool that FB is developing called "TL;DR". Basically, it will use AI to summarize long form articles and spit out bullet points so people don't have to read the full piece.
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) December 15, 2020
What could go wrong!
What a terrifically bad idea: https://t.co/XKg2poqQL5
— rands (@rands) December 16, 2020
Facebook is building AI news summarization software, which could help it build a clone of ByteDance's TikTok predecessor: rapid-fire newsreader app Toutiao https://t.co/QCMwt1Ai6H
— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) December 16, 2020
Wowee this sounds like a truly bonkers and nightmarish idea that will definitely increase online harassment of women journalists when the AI inevitably misunderstands an article/argument @withMEAA @genderequityvic https://t.co/6NR9GBzMYR
— Caitlin McGrane (@KenlyMcG) December 16, 2020
Facebook is reportedly developing AI to summarize news — what could go wrong? #MachineLearning #DataScience #DeepLearning #womenintech #AI #IoT #cybersecurity #tech https://t.co/w4X4bYKenN pic.twitter.com/4M88NO6Y1m
— Paula Piccard ?? ?? (@Paula_Piccard) December 16, 2020
Facebook is reportedly developing AI to summarize news — what could go wrong? (story by @Indianidle) https://t.co/VNcFLwhRMf
— TNW (@thenextweb) December 16, 2020
Facebook is building AI news summarization software, which could help it build a clone of ByteDance's TikTok predecessor: rapid-fire newsreader app Toutiao https://t.co/QCMwt1Ai6H
— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) December 16, 2020
페이스북이 뉴스 기사를 몇 가지 요점을 자동 요약하는 AI 도구 'TLDR'을 공개했다는 뉴스 https://t.co/d3PdtwzAjB
— H. Kim (@metavital) December 16, 2020
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Facebook is testing an AI-powered tool called TL;DR to summarize news https://t.co/WAriYoVKB6
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) December 16, 2020
Facebook is reportedly developing AI to summarize news — what could go wrong? (story by @Indianidle) https://t.co/kWTmKvUSXG
— TNW (@thenextweb) December 16, 2020
Facebook, currently running attack ads which claim Apple’s protection of user privacy is “harmful to small businesses” wants to ensure even more people stay on its platform by automatically summarising content so you don’t have to read it. https://t.co/t0TH95sV86
— Ian Betteridge ?? (@ianbetteridge) December 16, 2020
this is gonna be a flop bc the most active fb users are olds and they don't understand what "tl;dr" means. every time i've used it in a wtf post, i get people telling me i had some weird typo i should fix. ?♂️https://t.co/px9BaCoiUR
— Matt Kiser (@Matt_Kiser) December 16, 2020
I tweeted about this feature the other day!
— Alternate Jones (@AlternateJones) December 16, 2020
"During Tuesday’s meeting, the company also unveiled an AI assistant tool called “TLDR,” which could summarize news articles in bullet points so that a user wouldn’t have to read the full piece."https://t.co/2oGeOPnpw5