India, June 19 -- Every day, in newspaper offices around the world, editors sit down to an improbable task.

The day has yielded thousands of news events: births, deaths, political slugfests, tales from conflict and war, scientific findings, boardroom decisions, small acts of bravery, large betrayals, tales of bureaucratic action and inertia. The editor's job is to reduce this to perhaps 100 stories that will appear across the daily newspaper.

One question drives it all: what, of all that has happened, most deserves to be on these pages?

That question has always belonged to editors. Now it belongs to everyone: the musician choosing between 50 AI-generated chord progressions, the brand team deciding which of a dozen copy variants goes li...