The author is posting comments here (all flagged at this time) that are very clearly AI slop, which is quite ironic.
Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
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#12Awesome idea
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#14What do you use as “ground truth”? The page says “independent sources”, and I’m sure there’s too many to list, but my question is how are they vetted as being truthful and how are two sources with opposite viewpoints reconciled?
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#15That's too much effort. Should have been a browser extension that uses ollama so it can run with local models or maybe even openrouter...
But, there is a reason why it's not an extension. At least for now. Whole product isn't a UI or service, it's a set of skills for your AI agent of choice, which gets content from URL or whatever shared as a source, splits it into claims and does extensive web searches for every claim to compare it with statement from provided content.
On local models constraint isn't a model itself - but search. Model don't judge from it's trained memory, so even local model will need a backend for search, otherwise it can't provide a verdict.
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#16but with "AI" now it's possible not only to do non-stop but in REALTIME
you could even just restrict the source of the check to the paper's own reporting the past fifty years
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim...
I'd like to see that backfilled, all the way back to the "long form birth certificate" (remember that horror show)
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#17The author is posting comments here (all flagged at this time) that are very clearly AI slop, which is quite ironic.
Fair, drafted posts with claude, getting all my comments flagged. Thought that something is wrong with my account. Writing myself from here
HN’s community has built-in bullshit detectors.
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#18Who checks the checkers?
But there is a room for improvement, what do you suggest? Have a Judge agent which will check results?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair, drafted posts with claude, getting all my comments flagged. Thought that something is wrong with my account. Writing myself from here
Bro, you don’t have to outsource your brain for basic communication on the internet. HN’s community has built-in bullshit detectors.
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#20Who checks the checkers?