I need an alternative YouTube homepage that generate video suggestions without clickbait titles and thumbnails.
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
#52I love the idea! I was thinking about doing sth similar to my medieval content farm (https://tidings.potato.horse/about) but as a personalised feed, where I can apply different “soft” filters to different types of content, eg. remove garbage tech-bro language, provide outlines/shorter versions of sensationalised content, reference related articles from different sources. Essentially, I was thinking about replacing my poet/editorial team personas with different user personas.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#53I wrote a small utility to send the AP news feed to GPT and ask it to judge which stories are important based on how many people they affect and how time-sensitive they are. ie. Will this story still be important tomorrow?
Only the passing ones are then delivered to me.
I'm not releasing this as a product, it's too simple, but it works surprisingly well, and it's trivial to add criteria for what you deem to be important, or not.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#54JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on September 22, 2022. Dimon mentioned that as the U.S. nears a potential default on its sovereign debt, markets could experience panic. ... [1] He said that today, but in an interview with Bloomberg. The source article[2] just illustrates it with an archive photo from 2022, when he testified in a Senate hearing. Simi…
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.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
What exactly does "What exactly does "desensationalize the news" mean?" mean? I think what you're really saying is: "I'm less interested in the work this person did to make something cool; selfishly, I'd like to know if it follows my biases so I can judge it based on politics." Or you're just curious how it works and haven't spent the effort trying it out, which is valid.
This is unnecessarily presumptive and negative. They have a simple question - and that doesn't mean they didn't try it out to see how it works from the user side of things.
The way the question was asked was not asked as if by a person who was simply curious, so yes I was negative.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#56There's also: https://www.newsminimalist.com/
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#57Love the idea, it would be nice to have this as a chrome extension.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#58I need an alternative YouTube homepage that generate video suggestions without clickbait titles and thumbnails.
I use Procrastination Free YouTube. It has settings to customize YouTube so that you don't see any suggestions at all.
If i need to watch a video, I have to search for it. In order to not miss Videos from people i want to follow, I use NewPipe on my phone.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#59What exactly does "desensationalize the news" mean? Is there any additional detail on what exactly it does?
What exactly does "What exactly does "desensationalize the news" mean?" mean? I think what you're really saying is: "I'm less interested in the work this person did to make something cool; selfishly, I'd like to know if it follows my biases so I can judge it based on politics." Or you're just curious how it works and haven't spent the effort trying it out, which is valid.
It'd be interesting to see a variant of this app with a slider bar, allowing one to drag a widget to see the exact same stories but with say, far-left, left, center, right or far-right biases applied.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#60Orwell's Newspeak comes to mind. This can be a good app but it can also serve to stifle conversation by narrowing the Overton window if this kind of technique becomes the norm.
Stay vigilant.