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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
#222Very nice. Although perhaps you could do well to remove some sites from your intake. For example, while the following link is mild compared to its source material, it's hardly devoid of sensationalism:
https://www.boringreport.org/app/all/645a8edbcdaefdcdfe3806b...
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#223JPMorgan 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.
Their are news APIs
Start with those and then figure out how to scrape a site as your input and spit out the existing API format and you'll come in through a clever side route, essentially having a two phase assembly line.
Also this will allow users to customize their "feed" as a free side effect of the architecture and furthermore you'll be able to isolate your scraping -> API transform on a per site basis, also as a free consequence and lastly, you can parallelize the work much cleaner and even have the public add their own "transformer" for their favorite news site
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#224I like it! It would be great if the app could “bin” all articles by news topic, e.g. “Supreme Court Decision…”. Google News tries to do this. This would clean it up and make it even more “boring.” Otherwise, thank you very much!
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you tell GPT-4 specifically to respond with proper jargon for the domain like that found in a textbook or journal it provides much much more useful replies. Silly that prompt engineering is what's required but at least for my purposes wherein I fact check it's output it's right nearly all the time and I've learned a great deal.
Even then there's literally nothing stopping it from making shit up.
Sure yeah, for now. Just saying I literally use it to mine out things to confirm (/ not believe until I do) and so far it has very rarely led me astray and even then it's been small nuance. It's striking.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#226Here'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…
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Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#227The title from Boring Report:
> The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Performance on Switch
Article's title:
> Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’s Performance On Switch Sounds Like A Minor Miracle
I find the Boring Report summary to be much more informative that the article, it's like they trimmed away all the fat.
The fact that the game runs at 20-30 FPS doesn't seem like a "minor miracle", by 2023 standards that's barely acceptable. And I understand the limitations of the Switch hardware, I'm not trying to insult Nintendo or the Zelda games, but I have hard time using the word "miracle" to describe the performance of a game that runs at 20-30 FPS.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#228I endorse! I think that 90% of what people respond to are the headlines, and the headlines are almost always sensationalist attempts to grab attention, and that this distorts peoples views of the world in dysfunctional ways.
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#229Actually like this idea, but it also made me think of doing an AI app to transform all language into double-plus good Newspeak
Re: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
#230Great execution.
Question: How do you intend to make money from/monetize this?
The reason I ask is because I have several "pet" projects like this I've been meaning to develop but with the time cost and financial cost it has to be something I can at least cover the server and maintenance costs.