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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

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Post by cookie_monsta »

torresmo wrote: post #65
tikkun wrote: post #13

I'm generally excited about something I'm calling "English to English translation" - and this is a good example. Previously translation has focused on going between languages. I think there's just as much benefit to translating within a given language. * Translate corporate speak to plain English. * Translate passive aggressive to calm and peaceful. * Translate sensationalist to neutral (like the OP). * Translate imp…

I am looking forward to a tool to summarize a 10 page long Terms of Service into a list of points about what I really need to beware of. Same for legal contracts.

Still generated by humans afaik, but in the neighbourhood:

https://tosdr.org/

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

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Post by shever73 »

mc32 wrote: post #54
jjeaff wrote: post #41

Earlier 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.

True, I have a photograph taken in Kenya that has been variously described as in California, Guatemala, Colombia, Australia and South Africa.

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

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Post by shireboy »

Ah, I've had this idea for 5+ years now and just haven't had time to try to build a MVP. Before this year it would have been harder to do well - involve human writers and sentiment analysis. But lately I have been thinking about trying to do it with GPT.

I genuinely think there is a huge underserved market for a "world's most boring news and weather site". Almost everybody I talk to on all sides of the aisle recognizes that clickbait news is one root cause of lots of problems and want an alternative. In fact, in some ways, Hacker News is that site for me.

That said, I don't get why an app not a mobile-responsive website.

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

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Post by shrimpx »

chankstein38 wrote: post #66

I 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…

Maybe it could also use the LLM to rank the articles by essential importance or impact.

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

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Post by georgeg23 »

shireboy wrote: post #83

Ah, I've had this idea for 5+ years now and just haven't had time to try to build a MVP. Before this year it would have been harder to do well - involve human writers and sentiment analysis. But lately I have been thinking about trying to do it with GPT. I genuinely think there is a huge underserved market for a "world's most boring news and weather site". Almost everybody I talk to on all sides of the aisle recogniz…

It does have a mobile web version:

https://www.boringreport.org/app

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

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Post by nottorp »

nico wrote: post #30
tikkun wrote: post #13

I'm generally excited about something I'm calling "English to English translation" - and this is a good example. Previously translation has focused on going between languages. I think there's just as much benefit to translating within a given language. * Translate corporate speak to plain English. * Translate passive aggressive to calm and peaceful. * Translate sensationalist to neutral (like the OP). * Translate imp…

The same concept applies to so many things One time, local-dialect subtitles completely changed a movie experience for me It was an American movie. Where I was, they usually watch movies with english audio and neutral Spanish subtitles This time, instead of neutral Spanish, they used local Spanish with slang… wow, what a difference in the way the movie felt Having local language and slang can convey meaning and emoti…

Proper translation is an art form... if you have the budget.

Otherwise, it's someone typing as fast as the movie goes on the first viewing.

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

#88

Post by gumballindie »

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: after reading some of the content i really like it!

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

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Post by shrimpx »

The prospect that this type of tech could proliferate is politicians' and political media's worst nightmare lol. Imagine everyone putting a boring filter on CNN, Fox News, and political Twitter. Politicians would have to run on policy platforms again, which has become almost unthinkable.
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