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

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> In today's world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the actual facts and relevant information. A reasonable premise! But easier said than done. I wonder how this app counteracts the hallucination and lying behavior of LLMs.* Would be pretty bad to trade off easier-to-decipher human bias and sensationalism for distorted truths and lies from an obfuscated sequence of dot products! * I assume t…

Usually it hallucinates when you're asking for information, in this case it's rewriting existing text, so it should be a little safer. When in doubt check another source, as with everything.

People should doubt everything an LLM outputs, ergo, why use it in the first place if the desired output is objective fact? LLMs hallucinate, that's what they do. When it's wrong, you likely won't notice that it's wrong, but over time, your world view is going to become more and more distorted.

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

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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…

My favorite is pasting something into the chat with "ELI5"

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

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Great 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.

I would like to pay for a news aggregator like this, especially if it had more topics. $1 a month would be easy to part with and would cover GPT costs quickly with a relatively small number of users.

I would also like to see an RSS reader that does the same to my own feeds, but that could be cost-prohibitive.

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

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The very first article is a left leaning fact check. This needs work to be what you claim. You've baked in bias and report it without emotion

What is the problem with the summarization of that article, exactly? https://www.boringreport.org/app/all/645c525a001a7a3765dbc4c... Or are you complaining that it's there at all?

Fact checks are sensationalist. Remember they were used primarily to go after Trump, and have been rarely used since. They also tend to be biased. I think it would be better to add a “how much it matters” weight to news, so this wouldn’t even show up for me (read I don’t care about fact checks), similar to newsminimist.com

They could also use more right leaning site sources in general. It looks like they mostly have the token Fox News source and that’s it. It would be much more useful if I could either add my own sources, or for every left leaning source a right leaning one was added.

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

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post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

This, unless you are physically protesting (in a way that’s legitimately disruptive and not symbolic), campaigning, or otherwise actually doing something beyond voting, how angry you are (or more generally how passionately you feel about an issue) doesn’t affect the outcome much if at all. This was a key step towards improving my own mental health by unplugging from news. I do care about things like abortion and crim…

> This, unless you are physically protesting (in a way that’s legitimately disruptive and not symbolic)

To be fair, protesting (even the legitimately disruptive kind) doesn't really do anything either. We had people from all sides of the political spectrum protesting everything during the last three years, and the world is pretty much exactly like it was in 2019.

Protesting is just "being angry, but outside".

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the problem with the summarization of that article, exactly? https://www.boringreport.org/app/all/645c525a001a7a3765dbc4c... Or are you complaining that it's there at all?

Fact checks are sensationalist. Remember they were used primarily to go after Trump, and have been rarely used since. They also tend to be biased. I think it would be better to add a “how much it matters” weight to news, so this wouldn’t even show up for me (read I don’t care about fact checks), similar to newsminimist.com They could also use more right leaning site sources in general. It looks like they mostly have…

I'll just fix the link... https://www.newsminimalist.com/
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