I really like the concept and experience even though I almost missed out! I thought it was _only_ available as an app when I loaded the page on my phone. I rarely (basically never) install apps so I closed it immediately. It wasn't until I read on HN that I realized there's a web version.
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
#102Thanks for doing this. This is something I've been looking for since ChatGPT was unveiled generally. I wish Feedly or a similar RSS/News-aggregator would add a feature like this ... it would make so much sense.
We plan to implement RSS support as well, so please stay tuned. Thanks for the support.
Ha! Was just scrolling about to see if anyone asked about rss. I think you are onto something, I know i will keep your app installed for a while. Good luck and well done!
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#103I've played with a variation of this called "Unbiased News".
The prompt asks to rewrite the article in an unbiased way and to also expose biases in the article. It feels 'good' to use.
Demo here: https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1647042056139968512
Code and prompt here: https://github.com/OrionBrowser/ProgrammableButtons
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#104I 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…
I think the issue here is that we've been fed a high-sensationalism diet, so our brains are acclimated to in-your-face headlines. Perhaps if we detoxed our brains a bit (by using this app exclusively for a week or two), we would be able to recalibrate our expectations for what seems "interesting". This is sort of like how you recalibrate your tongue to a low-salt diet if you stop eating salty food for a few weeks.
The problem with the news isn't that it's sensationalized, which of course it is, but that an ever increasing amount of it is completely made up.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#105In 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.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#106In 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.
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#108This is the type of news app that I’ve always wanted. Kudos. I hate the sensationalism in news these days. One thing I’d like to see is a feature for grouping articles about the same piece of news. I keep seeing repeating articles covered by different outlets. It may not be easy to implement, but it’d make it much more useful for skimming the daily news.
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#109Modern "news" is a lot like sewage padded by corn fructose syrup and wrapped into shiny colorful pills to fool the mind. It's true that the pills have useful elements in trace amounts, but if you start harvesting them from the pills, you'll get poisoned. Your LM just removes the deceptive shell, but the pill's contents remain the same. I think it would be better if your LM identified and highlighted lies and deceptio…
though thats true this product (if widely used) would reduce incentives to make clickbaity headlines like 'You Wont Believe' or 'Watch what happens when'. Also 5000 word essay at the start of every boiled potato recipe. Thats a step forward but to change the actual content of news would require adjustment of journalistic motivations, which are primarily either money or power driven. they dont change easy especially given how much money is in keeping populus close to 50/50 on only 2 options.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the issue here is that we've been fed a high-sensationalism diet, so our brains are acclimated to in-your-face headlines. Perhaps if we detoxed our brains a bit (by using this app exclusively for a week or two), we would be able to recalibrate our expectations for what seems "interesting". This is sort of like how you recalibrate your tongue to a low-salt diet if you stop eating salty food for a few weeks.
The problem with the news isn't that it's sensationalized, which of course it is, but that an ever increasing amount of it is completely made up.
Hm, maybe from some news outlets. I think the main issue for big news outlets isn't outright falsehoods, it's the coverage bias. You really can't get a full sense of what's going on if you don't make an effort to get news from divergent sources because each outlet covers the news that fits its preferred narrative.