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Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by tempfile »

ChocolateGod wrote: post #113
tempfile wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, could you do me a favour and point out which of the following count as conservative (or more recently, centrist) view points, to you? > The paid accounts posting the content all consistently posted antisemitic or pro-Nazi material. Examples included praise of Nazi soldiers, sharing of Nazi symbols and denials of the Holocaust. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-mus... The facts are still the…

By the same logic, because Bluesky has a child predator problem everyone on Bluesky is one. But the example you gave doesn't counter my point of the worst facist/nazi being watered down to that it doesn't have any weight anymore, if anything it supports it.

Before I waste any more time, is there any evidence possible that would satisfy you?

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by ikanreed »

bentt wrote: post #119

Too many replies are missing the point. This isn't about whether there are other ways to do this, or if X is good/bad. This is about using a local AI model to curate content we want to avoid/see. This is a big area of interest and I'm happy to see something on HN about it!

But, of course, it would be better if we could generalize and let users describe in conversational language the specific things they don't want to see.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by ImJamal »

delecti wrote: post #118
ImJamal wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You won't get messages from Elon, but you will sure get a lot of messages about Elon since he lives rent free in so many people's mind.

He's the owner of the site, in the inner circle of the incoming administration, and also the richest person in the world as global society is increasingly an oligarchy. That's hardly "living rent free in [one's] mind".

People were nonstop talking about him prior to being involved with Trump and Twitter and it has only gotten worse.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by sphars »

thih9 wrote: post #103
beAbU wrote: post #47

I've found this [1] to also work really well to clean up the feed. 1: https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivat...

The link leads to a Twitter/X support article for “How to deactivate your account”.

That's the joke...

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by andy_ppp »

I want this for YouTube videos as well that can summarise the content and just take me to the things I would find most interesting in the video, almost like auto chapters that skip all the “and later we’ll be discussing really interesting thing X if you keep listening” filler. It would be great to filter all the noise out and create highlights package automatically that was 10% of the video length that can be watched separately.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by itslennysfault »

bentt wrote: post #119

Too many replies are missing the point. This isn't about whether there are other ways to do this, or if X is good/bad. This is about using a local AI model to curate content we want to avoid/see. This is a big area of interest and I'm happy to see something on HN about it!

It's not a local AI model. It's using a groq.com API, but your point about people missing the point is still a good point.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by danielpetho »

Havoc wrote: post #116

Prompt used seems to be here: https://github.com/danielpetho/unbaited/blob/main/extension/... Seems like a reasonable idea. I have doubts about an LLM being able to reliably detect when a tweet was made to *deliberately* trigger emotions. That’s setting the bar quite high on llm working out intent

100% agree unfortunately, haha

the default system prompt is quite weak, and could be much more specific / better.

also, even as a "human" can't decide sometimes what is a bait...

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by andrewla »

pluc wrote: post #114

If you don't want engagement bait or politics on Twitter.. why are you on Twitter? RSS is better to keep up to date on news, and if none of your friends are on Mastodon, get new friends.

Sorry, ignorant question -- how does one us RSS to keep up to date on news?

With Twitter, I can see content from people I follow and from content referenced or highlighted by people I follow. People in this case can also include news organizations or other professional journalistic content.

In addition there is the algorithmically generated garbage feed stuff that is mostly useful for seeing (potentially) interesting content that I missed on the main feed, but also contains a ton of content from people I did not follow and that people I do follow did not highlight or reference. Presumably this project attempts to reduce the garbage-ey ness of this feed, which I would appreciate.

Re: Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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Post by danielpetho »

bentt wrote: post #119

Too many replies are missing the point. This isn't about whether there are other ways to do this, or if X is good/bad. This is about using a local AI model to curate content we want to avoid/see. This is a big area of interest and I'm happy to see something on HN about it!

yes that's the main idea.

i mean even llms wouldn't be necessary (this is just a possible direction), but just give me more control on my own feed

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