Have you seen a title that makes you want to click, but are afraid to come across yet another eye-catching content? Well, don’t panic! Artifact has a tool designed to warn you of so-called “clickbait” content.
And the good news is that it’s available now on the app!
Artifact, the news seen by the fathers of Instagram
Do you know Artifact, the new application designed by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram? If this is not the case yet, just remember that this is an app that wants to be halfway between TikTok and Google News. Powered by AI, it suggests news based on your preferences in a personalized newsfeed. In fact, just last month, the app got a new feature aimed at giving you article summaries in different styles.
Determined to stand out more and more from its main competitor, namely Google News, Artifact is once again arming itself with a function that could well pique your curiosity and make you want to discover the application.
“Mark as Clickbait”the novelty of Artifact to avoid unpleasant surprises
Now, Artifact users can have a handy tool to flag certain articles as “misleading.” Our colleagues from The Verge indeed report to us that the feature was added in the latest version of the app released yesterday. To use it, it’s very simple: the Artifact teams inform us that it will suffice to “ report articles as clickbait from the menu […] when reading an article or long pressing Feed “.
When users report an article, the Artifact teams ensure that they can better prioritize the content within their application, and thus warn the community of possible articles to avoid. The website The Verge also reports that in addition to being suggested less often in users’ news feeds, massively reported content may have its title changed by Artifact so that it is more representative of the content in question.
In this regard, it will however be necessary to observe how the application will make these possible modifications. As Jay Peters very rightly points out, if the modified title is not explicit or not related to the content of an article, the author of said article could then unfairly suffer the wrath of readers.
Source : The Verge
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