This time around, the site is focused on ranking news - specifically, AI news. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site’s goal is to “track the most influential voices in a space” and to surface the news that’s actually worth “paying attention to.” AI is the area it’s testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics.
It scrapes x.com and uses that to decide what’s newsworthy.
Rose probably got the idea from his friend Leo Laporte who has REALLY taken a massive swig of the AI Kool-Aid. it’s a real shame too cause I grew up watching both these guys on The Screen Savers and Call For Help. they pretty much taught me everything I know about computers. but man they went deep into AI/LLMs.