Last month, Patch announced it was publishing AI-generated newsletters in 30,000 communities across the U.S. These newsletters scrape from local news sites, social media groups, and official town websites, then use large language models (LLMs) to select the most relevant headlines and draft story summaries. The final product is a daily or twice-weekly email round up, with link outs to five articles and a list of upcoming events.
It’s local news aggregation, but fully automated, and on a…
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https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/the-origins-of-patchs-big-ai-newsletter-experiment/
