Tamedia’s Curation Algorithm Promising But Not a Panacea

With an algorithm named Octopus, Tamedia aimed to determine whether a machine can replace a journalist’s editorial judgment when it comes to curating stories from various platforms. Spoiler alert: it can’t, at least not yet, but it complements the editors’ work.

The media group’s “12-app”, which gives users access to 12 top stories of the day in one edition, served as the platform for the test.

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