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I built a simple and ugly website that generates AI news based on updates from frameworks and libraries, and content that is trending on reddit/HN using the Ope
by frozenlettuce 3y ago
I built a simple and ugly website that generates AI news based on updates from frameworks and libraries, and content that is trending on reddit/HN using the OpenAI API. Yes, it has ads.
Some things that I've learned so far:
- The AI is too gullible. If I ask it to write a short summary of an article, if the source article is trying to shill a product or service, the AI will replicate the salesman discourse. I tried adjusting the prompt to see if I could make it more critical of content that it is analyzing (by telling it ahead of time that the post might be trying to push a product/service).
- Costs are ludricously low. It costs like 1 cent per 15 articles.
- My next experiment will be with local news. I'm building some feeds with public information from my town (the town's hall official news, the legislators weekly meeting notes, weather reports, waze, etc), and based on that make it generate news items. The thing about it is that its sources will be (nearly) primary - it will not copy content from other journalists (apart from the official prefecture news, which I will need to tell the AI that will be biased towards the current administration). When analyzing the local records, it might be able to catch shady stuff that regular journalists would not notice. Imagine feeding some buying orders from the town and asking the AI ("is something illegal going on here" or "are any of these items overpriced?")
- I see a risk/opportunity for infinite content generation. Example: generate 50 headlines for articles about the Kardashians. The next day, ask for more and provide the last 200 headlines, to make sure that no repetitions occur. It would flood search engines with almost random content. I think that something like that could be useful to fill "holes" in wikipedia, though.
The site that I built is https://dev-radar.com/ https://dev-radar.com/