There's also: https://www.newsminimalist.com/
I would love to see a combination of the two: stories ranked by importance with boring headlines
Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
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Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#122I'd love to see an ongoing set of graphs and data visualisations that show me what's going on.
E.g.
- how much are we borrowing this year and the last 50 years
- what is net migration for the last 50 years
- what is inflation for the last 50 years
- what are the crime rates for the last 50 years
- what are the violent crime rates for the last 50 years
Don't know why I picked 50 every time, but I'd just love some key, well-contextualised data that we could all agree on. At the moment it seems as though people can't even agree on basic facts, and anything that helps with that would be awesome.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fairness to the AI, I have often been confused by stock images or old images on news articles that are not from the event in question.
Photo attribution is a bit of a problem. For a tornado in Kansas they may use an image from another year’s tornado in Mississippi. For the war in Azerbaijan they might use an image from Chechnya, etc.
That is precisely the type of editorial affordance I would expect the AI to strip. This is just another way for media organizations to distort the news. I look forward to those enhancements
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#124There's also: https://www.newsminimalist.com/
I would love to see a combination of the two: stories ranked by importance with boring headlines
It already is rewriting the headline and summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35797241
Full thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35795388
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#125In an ideal world we’d have a network of trusted people that feed trusted event highlights and leave it to ai to fill in the gaps or detect bias. At the moment news is just a collection of episodes and arcs aimed at maintaining a constant state of fear and anger - emotions familiar to all of us. We are designed to pay attention to danger and the media knows this. We should detoxify it. It’s done enough harm. Edit: af…
We should do the same with fiction novels. For example:
In 1922, a man named Nick Carraway moved to West Egg, Long Island, a region populated by newly rich individuals who have established social connections. Nick has taken residence in a small house next door to a mansion owned by a man named Jay Gatsby.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#126This should be useful for the ever-more-hyperbolic weather reports that dominate network news now.
NBC News, almost every week: "20 million Americans threatened by severe weather this weekend!"
"Bomb cyclone threatens 10 million people"
"Atmospheric river menacing 18 million people"
Translation: A rainy front is moving through several states.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Photo attribution is a bit of a problem. For a tornado in Kansas they may use an image from another year’s tornado in Mississippi. For the war in Azerbaijan they might use an image from Chechnya, etc.
That is precisely the type of editorial affordance I would expect the AI to strip. This is just another way for media organizations to distort the news. I look forward to those enhancements
False metadata for rich media is a damned tough problem to target.
Putting aside any actually truthful captions, how do I know that "image of X" is actually an image of X?
Reading some of the Bellingcat investigations, and time spent, doesn't bode well.
I guess you could TinEye and index/hash the entire web's worth of rich media, then spot discrepancies (listed as X here, but Y there), but that seems horrendous in compute/bandwidth/storage terms.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#128I've also been thinking about processing news with LMs, but from a different angle. One big complaint I have for reading news through RSS, is that there's no natural hierarchy/priority to the news. There's no front page, no headline, no size in RSS feeds. Given the way news agencies generates those feeds, there are _tons_ of repetition, tiny updates, some insignificant one-liner interview about some significant event…
A related idea that I’ve had is to present a time-lagged newsfeed and use AI to link to any follow up stories.
“hey, remember how everyone was panicking about the price of eggs a few months ago? Well, prices are normal now but only one person wrote about it so you probably didn’t hear that”
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#129I think this is an amazing idea! The only flaw I see with it is that without the sensationalized headlines I read through going "Oh that doesn't matter, that doesn't matter either" etc haha I haven't found an article that sounds interesting in a few scrolls. I mean, it's great because it's accurate. Half of the "news" we're fed is sensationalized so we'll click on it and it's really nothing but it gets us riled up ab…
> The only flaw I see with it is that without the sensationalized headlines I read through going "Oh that doesn't matter, that doesn't matter either" etc haha I haven't found an article that sounds interesting in a few scrolls.
I tried doing the same thing as OP with chatgpt and came to the same realization so I stopped.
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#130From the Science section, there is a headline "Metallic Object Falls Through New Jersey Home's Roof", which is the desensationalized version of "Possible meteorite crashes through the roof of a New Jersey home, lands in bedroom still warm".
The ambiguity of "metal object" kind of makes it more sensational than "possible meteorite".