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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 mrguyorama »

skaushik92 wrote: post #117
mrguyorama wrote: post #113

Here's an idea, maybe the reason why news is angering and emotional is that there is a lot of bad shit going on in the world that we have just kind of let happen for a long time, and a lot of injustice that shouldn't be ignored, and a lot of people justice ignores that it shouldn't. Maybe the solution isn't to pretend things are just fine. People keep trying to paint this as some sort of "sensationalism" and "I want…

I agree that having an emotional response can help trigger societal change but it’s important to distinguish emotion that comes from within you after seeing information and you being fed content that is intentionally emotionally triggering. I agree that injustice shouldn’t be ignored but letting people think and feel it for themselves can be more powerful and impactful long term than being force-fed what to feel, whi…

I never said to be driven by the emotional reaction, but rather that the emotional reaction to current world events is the expected outcome. Still plenty of room to attempt to fix things rationally and through careful consideration

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

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Post by pixl97 »

ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #126

This should be useful for the ever-more-hyperbolic weather reports that dominate network news now. NBC News, almost every week: "20 million Americans threatened by severe weather this weekend!" "Bomb cyclone threatens 10 million people" "Atmospheric river menacing 18 million people" Translation: A rainy front is moving through several states.

I mean there is a different between 'getting some rain this weekend' and 'life threatening flooding'.

The atmospheric river post would be an example of the second headline and should still maintain the necessary urgency and implied danger.

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

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Post by rs999gti »

There's already - https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

It's shows left, center, and right bias of new articles.

Read the 'From the center' version of articles, and the bias and sensationalism has been removed - https://www.allsides.com/story/media-industry-cnn-staffers-c...

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

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Post by tppiotrowski »

Another great option is legiblenews which provides headlines from Wikipedia edits and is a bit dry but informative. I remember when Trump was president he was mentioned on legiblenews[1] a handful of times during his term while the mainstream media gyrated with his every move. It made me realize how little of the day to day news cycle has meaningful impact on the long term history of the world.

[1] https://legiblenews.com/

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

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Post by andrewxdiamond »

rs999gti wrote: post #133

There's already - https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news It's shows left, center, and right bias of new articles. Read the 'From the center' version of articles, and the bias and sensationalism has been removed - https://www.allsides.com/story/media-industry-cnn-staffers-c...

Isn’t coming to a news story from these specific political viewpoints already a whole lot of bias?

I don’t think we can boil down most things into three separate POV. Not everything needs to be looked at through a political party’s perspective

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

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Post by Fatboyrunning »

Well done.

There is something like this in 'A Fire Upon the Deep' by Vernor Vinge; his intergalactic societies translate their alien languages - and incompatible methods of expression - using an application similar to this one.

Very cool whenever sci-fi becomes reality!

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

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Post by Firmwarrior »

gnicholas wrote: post #110
TheBlight wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Amen to that

If we got a full-scale media blitz with pictures every time someone died in a car crash, people would take unnecessary car-related deaths much more seriously. 100 people a day are dying in the USA right now

There's so much fucked up stuff like that going on in the world, and people have no idea about it since it never hits the news

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

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Post by vippy »

andrewxdiamond wrote: post #136
rs999gti wrote: post #133

There's already - https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news It's shows left, center, and right bias of new articles. Read the 'From the center' version of articles, and the bias and sensationalism has been removed - https://www.allsides.com/story/media-industry-cnn-staffers-c...

Isn’t coming to a news story from these specific political viewpoints already a whole lot of bias? I don’t think we can boil down most things into three separate POV. Not everything needs to be looked at through a political party’s perspective

Came to say this. The point seems not to be give an "all sides showing" but specifically to remove language that's designed to trigger our subcortical response systems.

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

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Post by mrguyorama »

krapp wrote: post #116
mrguyorama wrote: post #113

Here's an idea, maybe the reason why news is angering and emotional is that there is a lot of bad shit going on in the world that we have just kind of let happen for a long time, and a lot of injustice that shouldn't be ignored, and a lot of people justice ignores that it shouldn't. Maybe the solution isn't to pretend things are just fine. People keep trying to paint this as some sort of "sensationalism" and "I want…

>Being angry from news like this isn't a bad thing. You SHOULD be angry. Why? What are you going to do? Just get high off the dopamine drip fed by social media rage cycles? Angry rants on Twitter? Maybe start a Youtube channel and make a buck or two with banal political essays? Recognize that the news is designed to make you angry because that anger prevents you from taking any form of effective action, it misdirects…

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