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Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

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Post by pohl »

ncarroll wrote: post #304
pohl wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds interesting. Just out of curiosity, how would they cover something like the recent "town hall" that CNN hosted for DJT?

It was not a top story but listed under Politics and National Affairs with this text: "Former President Donald Trump appears on CNN town hall forum in what is considered the first major television event of the 2024 presidential campaign (More) | See all 2024 presidential candidates so far (More)" (More) is a link to further information. Top story for that day (today) was Title 42 Ends and second was Santos Charges Un…

Yeah, "desensationalizing" doesn't really work when the peril should be the lede, does it.

Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

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Post by pohl »

nailer wrote: post #308
pohl wrote: post #306

I wonder how it would "desensationalize" something that probably ought to be framed more urgently than the press typically does, like the threats against democracy by creeping authoritarianism and white nationalists. Maybe that's an another app idea: remove "both sides" and "horse race" nonsense.

I suspect you might participate in the sensationalism the app was built the prevent. Outside the prison system, white nationalists hold very little influence in the US.

They have explicit support from the top of the party. They're actively defended by it.

Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

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Post by nailer »

dubcanada wrote: post #72
yamazakiwi wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's the word "Exactly" in his sentence that changes the meaning away from "I'm intellectually curious" for me. I'm just reading between the lines but the op can change their intention as they please and deny so whatever I say at this point is irrelevant and it's likely I was being too cheeky. Wouldn't someone who was intellectually curious just ask: "That's interesting, I wonder how it works?" and not: "What…

May I polity just say that perhaps defending yourself to this many people is unneeded. You said your two cents, hammering the same nail with a different hammer won't get the nail in any deeper. I've already completely moved on, you should as well. We are in HN, not reddit, let's all get a long as best as we can and discuss the matters at hand. I have no problems with you, I hope you have nothing against me. My intent…

FWIW I also read:

> What exactly does "desensationalize the news" mean?

as being snarky rather than curious.

Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

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Post by ncarroll »

pohl wrote: post #311
ncarroll wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was not a top story but listed under Politics and National Affairs with this text: "Former President Donald Trump appears on CNN town hall forum in what is considered the first major television event of the 2024 presidential campaign (More) | See all 2024 presidential candidates so far (More)" (More) is a link to further information. Top story for that day (today) was Title 42 Ends and second was Santos Charges Un…

Yeah, "desensationalizing" doesn't really work when the peril should be the lede, does it.

I'm not sure how one would desensationalize Donald Trump. For my needs, 1440 handled it just fine. Title 42 affects an international audience, Santos charges are newer news than the old news spouted so emphatically at the Town Hall and the third story, about inflation easing is also non-repetitive. The loudest and most outrageous voices manage to be heard even without amplification.

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Post by renjimen »

Great idea! I’ll be trying this out as my news source.

One suggestion (maybe you’re already doing this), but it’s not just sensationalism but also the bias towards negative events being reported that could be addressed. “If it bleeds it leads” is a famous adage in the news world. I would love to have control over the share of negative events I see in my feed. Contrary to the popular news, the world is a far healthier and safer place than it was in the past.

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Post by bee_rider »

teawrecks wrote: post #105
gumballindie wrote: post #88

In 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…

That's like saying, in an ideal world we don't need encryption because no one lies, everyone is responsible with the data they are entrusted with, and no one has any motives to look at data that doesn't belong to them. Ok, but we don't live in that world. So we have encryption, and people have to take what they hear with a grain of salt.

In an ideal world we wouldn’t worry about any of this because we’d be spherical cows floating in a vacuum. Sounds nice actually.

Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

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Post by nailer »

pohl wrote: post #312
nailer wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect you might participate in the sensationalism the app was built the prevent. Outside the prison system, white nationalists hold very little influence in the US.

They have explicit support from the top of the party. They're actively defended by it.

Which specific white nationalists or white nationalist groups have explicit support from the top of which party?
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