Practical guide
How an AI news digest should work
A credible AI news digest needs a bounded source list, explicit reader priorities, URL provenance, and visible exclusions. Judge it by the quality of its selections and original links—not by how fluent the paragraphs sound.[1][2]
Why this gets difficult
An AI news digest can sound confident while silently mixing reported facts, commentary, stale material, and generated links. The shorter output is not useful if the reader cannot inspect how it was assembled.[1][2]
A practical way through
- Define which sources and time window the digest is allowed to use.[1][2]
- Require every linked item to originate in the source material Scottie read and reject any source created inside generated prose.[1][2]
- Compare included and left-out items against the reader's priorities rather than assuming every new post deserves space.[1][2]
- Rerun or reject output that loses material disagreement, invents certainty, or reproduces paywalled text.[1][2]
An example
The situation: Several AI newsletters repeat a model launch while one vendor page changes the API price and a researcher disputes the benchmark.[1][2]
What changes: The digest groups the launch reruns, treats the official price as a changed fact, and keeps the benchmark criticism separate with its source.[1][2]
What you get: The reader receives one compact update without losing the two details that could alter a product or cost decision.[1][2]
What to watch for
Sources worth keeping
How Scottie helps
Scottie uses the sources you choose and your stated priorities, shows everything it read, and attaches each original link after the brief is written.[3]