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- 1-6My local news station started focusing on issues far across the country to monetize on sentational headlines and clicks... I'm glad there's concern about improving local news.
- syntaxingI like this so much. Maybe I’m romanticizing but hoping tools like this give local news a chance against monopolies like Sinclair Broadcasting.
- ChrisMarshallNYPretty cool.I guess the downside might be, that someone could be replaced by this, but it seems that this is a perfectly valid application of AI.In fact, lead generation seems to be a natural fit for LLMs.
- mmooss> Early on, the team tried to balance quality with the high cost of searching many small, scattered sources. They discovered that prompting can implicitly control search depth and behavior, but only after trial and error.I don't understand the cost here. The number of sources should be relatively tiny - it's not a general Internet search. The amount of data scraped would seem to be relatively tiny - how much data is there on suburban-county, PA?
- anonundefined
- FL410>The result: Scrape evolved from a small experiment to “load-bearing and critical infrastructure”Please be satire
- dec0dedab0deI'm still annoyed at them for shutting down philly.com
- calvinmorrison
