X’s New Stories Feature Uses AI to Summarize Trending News
May. 4, 2024X (formerly Twitter) is a platform where all the latest news and their discussions take place. However, catching up to them and their replies can be a chore at times. X has now introduced anew Stories feature that summarizes postsas a single story using the Grok AIchatbot exclusive to the platform. It will help streamline the latest and trending discussions on the app.
TheX Engineeringaccount posted on Friday announcing the feature and sharing a couple of screenshots of it to show how the feature will look in action. As you canfind, the feature will beavailable on the For You page. Opening the story will show you a brief summary like a news article instead of posts talking about the topic.
This will make it easier for readers to catch up on something they might be interested in. It solves the issue of scrolling through a bunch of unnecessary memes and other unrelated posts to learn about the context of something that is trending. However, X also warns the users, “Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs”,when viewing a story summary.
The feature is currently available for only X Premium users. It is accessible from the For You page in the Explore section of the app.X Stories is currently exclusive to iOS and Web,with no word on when it will land on Android devices. As for Grok itself, you can find it in the middle of the bottom toolbar if you need it.
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