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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
#192JPMorgan 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…
Hey, other dev on this project. This is a good catch, and we're aware of this issue. What it's doing is actually using a photo caption as part of the article, and we're working on removing the use of that in the summarization process.
Parsing pdfs or web semantically is really not an easy job, as I found in my own foray into LLM sumamrization.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That is precisely the type of editorial affordance I would expect the AI to strip. This is just another way for media organizations to distort the news. I look forward to those enhancements
> This is just another way for media organizations to distort the news
No, it's not. This is done because stories with images perform better, and obtaining images (& licenses) for photos of every event is not always possible.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#194this is like honest trailers for the news
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#195OpenAI's training is basically the entire internet. And we know when it comes to deciding if a story really is "that bad" or if it's hyperbole, the internet is really good at giving us a clear picture on that. Police shootings? ah well he was acting funny, they had to shoot him. School shootings? so many more people die of cancer each year. Fascist / authoritarian leaders on the rise? Here's 5 subtle and pointless ways Hitler was different and therefore NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. Global warming? The jury is still out. "Reasonable" discourse on campus being "cancelled"? OH YES CANCEL CULTURE IS RAMPANT!
Yeah, AI can totally decide what's real and what's not. Sounds great
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Writing summaries of documents and correspondence is one of the major use cases of those models. Desensitionalization and debullshittification are very similar to summarization, so it stands to reason LLMs should handle these tasks just as well.
Summarized bullshit is still bullshit akin to a polished turd. Given that the choice of which articles to write is incredibly biased to begin with this approach does not seem effective. What could theoretically work is an “AI news agency” that “summarizes” many different sources to generate unbiased articles.
It's like trying to make Chinese food using McDonald's Happy Meals for ingredients.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is precisely the type of editorial affordance I would expect the AI to strip. This is just another way for media organizations to distort the news. I look forward to those enhancements
> This is just another way for media organizations to distort the news No, it's not. This is done because stories with images perform better, and obtaining images (& licenses) for photos of every event is not always possible.
'Perform better' is frequently ..not synonymous, but amounting to the same as 'distort[ing] the news'..
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is precisely the type of editorial affordance I would expect the AI to strip. This is just another way for media organizations to distort the news. I look forward to those enhancements
> This is just another way for media organizations to distort the news No, it's not. This is done because stories with images perform better, and obtaining images (& licenses) for photos of every event is not always possible.
The fact something makes the article perform better doesn't mean it's not deceptive.
Indeed, a major incentive towards inaccuracy in journalism is the pursuit of impact.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#199Make a plugin for YouTube click bait titles
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#200I 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…
Dude, I love your Medieval Content Farm!!!