Artifact, the personalized news aggregator from Instagram’s founders is further embracing AI with the launch of a new feature that will now summarize news articles for you. The company announced today it’s introducing a tool that generates article summaries with a tap of a button, in order to give readers the ability to understand the “high-level points” of an article before they read. For a little extra fun, the feature can also be used to summarize news in a certain style — like “explain like I’m five,” in the style of Gen Z speech, or using only emojis, for example.
These styles aren’t really meant to be useful, they’re just there to add a little whimsy to the feature and potentially encourage users to try the new feature.
To use the AI summaries feature, you’ll tap on the “Aa” button ...
