AI System Sorts News Articles By Whether or Not They Contain Actual Information

There's a thing in journalism now where news is very often reframed in terms of personal anecdote and-or hot take. In an effort to have something new and clickable to say, we reach for the easiest, closest thing at hand, which is, well, ourselves--our opinions and experiences. I worry about this a lot! I do it (and am doing it right now), and I think it's not always for ill. But in a larger sense it's worth wondering to what degree the larger news feed is being diluted by news stories that are not "content dense."