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Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

#11

Post by jmsflknr »

hmontazeri wrote: post #2

When I first started using TechCrunch, I found myself overwhelmed with the cluttered and overloaded user interface, which made it difficult to quickly find the information I was looking for. That's why I decided to create "A Readable TechCrunch Feed," a simplified version of TechCrunch that focuses on delivering the most important news and updates in a clean and easy-to-read format. As I developed the tool, I found m…

Yes, who cares about the ad-dollars that TechCrunch relies on to survive, right? What a great innovation. Do you also have a workaround to use UPS without any charges? How about avoiding a way to pay utility bills?

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

#12

Post by marc »

tnzk wrote: post #9
bobsoap wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like a nice project, but you lose a lot of credibility by having ChatGPT write your comment. This kind of post instantly repels any desire to seriously interact with you in any meaningful way (at least in me). If English is not your first language, I'd simply say so and then run your own text through deepl.com or something if you think you have to. If your grammar is lacking, use whatever tool for that on…

You mean the parent is written by ChatGPT? How did you know that? I'm an ESL speaker and feel nothing wrong with the parent (beside being a bit too dense). Curious how natives or more fluent speakers would feel out of it.

When you use ChatGPT a lot you start to recognize certain patterns.

In this case, there’s 3 paragraphs of text, but there isn’t 3 paragraphs worth of information.

So what likely happened is that the OP provided limited context to the AI and asked it to write a 3-paragraph post based on it which it happily obliged to.

It feels like GPT-3.5. I think GPT-4 generally does a better job at these types of texts.

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by marc »

I love that you wrote it using Cloudflare workers and just kept the default URL. Not everything needs to be a branded product with a custom domain, logo, etc.

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

#15

Post by xept »

TechCrunch looks surprisingly clean with JavaScript disabled (I use NoScript, so I have to enable JS manually on each site if needed). It's simply text and some images, nothing else.

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

#16

Post by hackernewds »

marc wrote: post #12
tnzk wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the parent is written by ChatGPT? How did you know that? I'm an ESL speaker and feel nothing wrong with the parent (beside being a bit too dense). Curious how natives or more fluent speakers would feel out of it.

When you use ChatGPT a lot you start to recognize certain patterns. In this case, there’s 3 paragraphs of text, but there isn’t 3 paragraphs worth of information. So what likely happened is that the OP provided limited context to the AI and asked it to write a 3-paragraph post based on it which it happily obliged to. It feels like GPT-3.5. I think GPT-4 generally does a better job at these types of texts.

Now that you said it, I also recognize the pattern. But in a post-chatGPT world is there any solid source of truth that it was - what if OP denies it (which could realistically be true)?

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

#17

Post by hackernewds »

jmsflknr wrote: post #11
hmontazeri wrote: post #2

When I first started using TechCrunch, I found myself overwhelmed with the cluttered and overloaded user interface, which made it difficult to quickly find the information I was looking for. That's why I decided to create "A Readable TechCrunch Feed," a simplified version of TechCrunch that focuses on delivering the most important news and updates in a clean and easy-to-read format. As I developed the tool, I found m…

Yes, who cares about the ad-dollars that TechCrunch relies on to survive, right? What a great innovation. Do you also have a workaround to use UPS without any charges? How about avoiding a way to pay utility bills?

archive.org links are upvoted here all the time. including VPN solutions to skirt copyright laws. this is par for the course?

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

#19

Post by Brajeshwar »

tnzk wrote: post #9
bobsoap wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like a nice project, but you lose a lot of credibility by having ChatGPT write your comment. This kind of post instantly repels any desire to seriously interact with you in any meaningful way (at least in me). If English is not your first language, I'd simply say so and then run your own text through deepl.com or something if you think you have to. If your grammar is lacking, use whatever tool for that on…

You mean the parent is written by ChatGPT? How did you know that? I'm an ESL speaker and feel nothing wrong with the parent (beside being a bit too dense). Curious how natives or more fluent speakers would feel out of it.

I think a scanner will pop this up as ChatGPT-ed. Recently, I thought I will write along-side ChatGPT -- edit it to my tone, correct the styles to my liking, and the like. Unfortunately, I read after finishing up a few article I co-wrote with ChatGPT and I felt like puking all over.

So, I stopped. I will still take inspiration but it feels really fake. Co-incidentally, after looking at most MidJourney pictures, I'm thinking of getting back to my hobby of photography.

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

#20

Post by kervantas »

jmsflknr wrote: post #11
hmontazeri wrote: post #2

When I first started using TechCrunch, I found myself overwhelmed with the cluttered and overloaded user interface, which made it difficult to quickly find the information I was looking for. That's why I decided to create "A Readable TechCrunch Feed," a simplified version of TechCrunch that focuses on delivering the most important news and updates in a clean and easy-to-read format. As I developed the tool, I found m…

Yes, who cares about the ad-dollars that TechCrunch relies on to survive, right? What a great innovation. Do you also have a workaround to use UPS without any charges? How about avoiding a way to pay utility bills?

I can totally understand the OP's frustration with TechCrunch's website, and with cluttered, bloated, obfuscated websites in general which only aim to maximize the time the user spends there by confusing the fuck out of them.

This is why I read sites like The Economist (finite number of articles, released weekly) and RSS feeds. So tired of the attention economy.

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