New Sloth
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Extract & transform web data into feeds, effortlessly! Web scraper API, feed builder, feed reader and more, best for media monitoring, market intelligence etc.
Joined November 2008
Our new content auto-detection (powered by AI and ML) enhances our feed builder and web scraper API with in-built data transformer (web data to RSS or JSON). It discovers and presets title, summary and date selectors for most webpage sources, making feed generation even easier.
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Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop, but their traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video. https://t.co/2qQjTC7i1r
techcrunch.com
Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends, with human page views falling 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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More articles are now created by AI than humans. However, the proportion of AI-generated articles has plateaued, probably because they do not perform well in search, according to this new study. https://t.co/BZDZBzQoID
graphite.io
AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans. It is often hard to distinguish whether content is created by AI vs. a human. We seek to evaluate the prevalence of article...
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Reuters Institute survey across six countries revealed AI usage habits: "a significant gap exists between AI and human-led news production, with only 12% comfortable with fully AI-generated news compared to 62% for entirely human-made content." https://t.co/gWQOAElJpM
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
Our survey explores how people use generative AI in their everyday lives, what they think its impact will be on different areas of society, and what they think about its use in news and journalism...
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Around 9% of adults in U.S. are getting news from AI, with a third of them finding it hard to determine what's true and half getting inaccurate news. https://t.co/4r2c9FO1eP
pewresearch.org
About one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots.
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Ethical scraping is being ravaged by AI, spoiling it for everyone else. "One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute" https://t.co/t2h6l6hpYt
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Google search users are less likely to click on links when they encounter AI Overviews, causing massive drop in site visits for publishers and damaging the fundamental interconnections of the Web. https://t.co/5dgedTMLhC
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"Links were the last redeeming quality of search that gave publishers traffic and revenue. Now Google [AI Mode] just takes content by force and uses it with no return, the definition of theft", says News/Media Alliance CEO. https://t.co/1nNjQYHvfi
theverge.com
Google just expanded AI Mode to everyone in the US.
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"The Guardian US expects to hit $44M in voluntary reader donations (without a paywall) in the U.S. and Canada this year, up 33% over last year" P.S. for everything else, there's https://t.co/cqFqwzmNvD and https://t.co/zLw7qiJK3F to bypass most paywalls. https://t.co/FyPxySUY7R
nymag.com
How the Guardian US is using Trump to get readers to cough up a donation.
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"Having the library of Alexandria in our pockets has dulled, rather than heightened, our senses." Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back? https://t.co/KjzwrHXHfq
kasurian.com
Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?
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"Journalism can no longer chase Silicon Valley's tail in hopes of salvation. Instead of embracing AI in journalism and competing with scale, I propose the anti-scale approach to technology in journalism." Anti-scale: a response to AI in #journalism:
tylerjfisher.com
Journalism can no longer chase Silicon Valley's tail in hopes of salvation. We need a self-determined vision for what journalism on the web is, who it is for, and how we build it.
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"We want modern social media and public conversation online to work more like the early days of the web, where anyone could put up a blog or use RSS to subscribe to several blogs." Good intentions @Bluesky
https://t.co/wZXkwPjhlx
blueskyweb.zendesk.com
What is Bluesky? Bluesky is a social app that is designed to not be controlled by a single company. We're creating a version of social media where it's built by many people, and it still comes toge...
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"Millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content." The rise and fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-generated news outlet:
nytimes.com
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.
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Meta has had enough of Australia's link tax; says it'll not renew any news bargaining deals. "If the news companies don't want the traffic, they can block it. But they want the free traffic and they want to be paid for it. It's extraordinarily corrupt." https://t.co/ZaOKCP3yHU
techdirt.com
It appears that Meta is serious about no longer bribing news orgs to keep corrupt politicians from forcing them to engage in sketchy wealth transfer schemes to news orgs. While it caved in the past…
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Want to make better decisions? Ask for less information, not more. https://t.co/fSGV7BsKQy
#Productivity #DecisionMaking
medicalxpress.com
When people have to make a tough decision, their first instinct is usually to gather as much information as possible. Just one problem: according to research published this week in Cognitive Resear...
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"Google Reader had over 30 million users at its peak." Unbelievable how a company could shut down such a popular app, likely because RSS feeds were a hindrance in ad revenue for them. An interesting look back at why Google Reader was killed 10 years ago:
9to5google.com
Google Reader is often held up as one of the prime examples of Google killing a product that users love and consider to be good...
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Reddit will start charging AI models learning from its extremely human archives: https://t.co/uIXCPmFwQ2
#OpenWeb #AImodel #ChatGPT
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There's more bad news than good news in today's world, or so it seems. "For a headline of average length, each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%." https://t.co/qDCaVh2LCa
nature.com
Nature Human Behaviour - Examining real-world data that tested different headlines for the same news story on real news readers, Robertson et al. find that people are more likely to click on a...
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"Globalization is almost dead. Free trade is almost dead." thinks Morris Chang, the 91yo founder of TSMC, world's most valuable semiconductor company. Opinion: https://t.co/gkX0nYRQfJ
#GeoPolitics #Globalization #SupplyChain
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