¶We did “the drive” (St. Pete to Perrysburg) in seventeen hours flat three years ago today. That was right before we said goodbye to our last gas car and took delivery on our second EV. We haven’t seen seventeen hours for the drive since.
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Siri AI could get a boost from news content with new publisher deal (appleinsider.com)
¶According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple is reaching out to publishers to enter multi-year deals that would supply journalistic content for use with Siri AI. The details of the deals haven’t been shared, but it seems Apple is seeking a pay-as-you-go model with a possible nine-figure budget for payments.
¶The model differs from Apple’s previous partnerships with publications and AI training, which involved bulk payments for training datasets. Instead, Apple appears to be planning to pay as content is used, similar to Apple News.
¶That would mean if a user asks for information regarding a news story or report that is a part of this partnership, the partner would get paid for delivering that content. The user would also benefit from being provided human-written content unaltered from an original source, at least, if it is presented that way.
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¶This is interesting to me from both a financial aspect and a content one. Financially, maybe it will provide a reliable revenue stream for news outlets, particularly if it is successful and eventually adopted by others. And, no lawsuits required!
¶On the content side, I’m wondering if this would allow users to ask Siri to present human written content on a particular news item from multiple sources. Something like “hey Siri, give me a direct report of this particular event from a leading liberal outlet and a leading conservative outlet without generating any additional summary information; include accurate quotes from each, along with links to the sources.”
¶Human-written content, accurately pulled from multiple sources reflecting multiple viewpoints, without an AI-generated summary, and with links to all sources used.
¶Presenting news this way would greatly reduce the friction associated with consuming news from multiple angles. Some people (most?) will likely prefer to continue living in their selected silo, but, over time, this could fundamentally alter the way in which people consume news.
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