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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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

pessimizer wrote: post #196
haldujai wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They have McDonald's in China (at least in Shenzhen) - if you were to take ingredients from there, this may actually work.

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

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Post by opportune »

ryandrake wrote: post #249
opportune wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

That is particularly the kind I meant to exclude, I agree with your sentiment

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

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Post by halotrope »

Looks really good! Please apologize for plugging in the comments, we are doing something very similar with https://markets.sh/. The news are not only summarized and clustered by stories but we are also building a relationship of the clusters and connecting it to e.g stocks and economic data. We are also plotting news coverage over time (looking to add sentiment and metadata soon.). We made this all indexed/queriable in realtime via a chat feature So that you can follow up on questions (need to be signed up tho). API is also available for automatic retreival.

Here are some examples:

Musk Legal Issues: https://markets.sh/stories/elon-musk-s-legal-issues-2023-05-...

TikTok Ban: https://markets.sh/stories/tiktok-ban-2023-05-11-01-16-03

Bard: https://markets.sh/stories/google-bard-ai-chatbot-2023-05-11...

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

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Post by pseudalopex »

yamazakiwi wrote: post #78
dubcanada wrote: post #72

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May I polity just say that perhaps defending yourself to this many people is unneeded. You said your two cents, hammering the same nail with a different hammer won't get the nail in any deeper. I've already completely moved on, you should as well. We are in HN, not reddit, let's all get a long as best as we can and discuss the matters at hand. I have no problems with you, I hope you have nothing against me. My intent…

So you can be rude, but I can't be a little cheeky, roger that. I have no problems with you and I hope you have a great day!

They were not rude. You were not a little cheeky.

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

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Post by satisfice »

"Sensationalism" is not a bug. It's an essential aspect of useful news.

Those of you who think it isn't... let me guess... You didn't major in sociology, anthropology, or psychology?

Those of you who respect sociology/anthropology/psychology and yet still think that "sensationalism" (presented in quotes because that is a socially-constructed, loaded term) is something that distracts you from real news, I'd like to hear some of your nuanced thoughts on this. Because it seems to me that one man's "sensationalizing" is another man's "helping you understand the relevance of recent events to your life." And that's quite important.

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

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Post by justinzollars »

Personally speaking, I don't think I would ever use this because the media is already heavily filtered, adding a second filter won't help me personally. Its really almost impossible to know anything - you have to have boots on the ground, or go to the source. Some topics aren't even reported, and often the author doesn't understand the subject, or the author is so bias facts are omitted.

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

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Post by jonathanstrange »

I'm not against such kind of experiments but there should be very strict legislation to label any kind of AI-generated or processed content as such. I hope that lawmakers catch up quickly enough to make this happen at least in the EU.
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