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This is very interesting desire to me.. Wont you end up with a weird, contrived context for everything else you do read though? Like you would be reading an art
by beepbooptheory 3y ago
This is very interesting desire to me.. Wont you end up with a weird, contrived context for everything else you do read though? Like you would be reading an article about the UN and it would say: "and then, some country put forward a new resolution." Wouldn't that, like, kinda drive you crazy?
Like I know the state of journalism is less than stellar, but patching it after the fact for each reader seems like the wrong direction. The implicit conception of "the news" in this desire reifies it into a weird kind of commodity for your personal entertainment/edification; which is precisely the conception operating today which makes it so bad!
Like, maybe, if you have psychological considerations where certain triggers are very damaging, I can kinda understand this. But if that is really the case, then just why read the news anyway? Of course you gotta read some sometimes, but in general you can read other things. There is a lifetime and a half of fiction and nonfiction to read, no GPU required!
- theduder99 3y agopatching it after the fact is definitely needed. same way I use a plugin to filter out curse words because when it comes to your brain, garbage in = garbage out. patching "news" stories after the fact will never be perfect though because half the problem with "journalism" is omission of facts, not just biased half-truths or opinions.
- esperent 3y agoI don't want to remove all mentions. If I'm reading an article about something else and it happens to mention something on my list, that's fine. I just want to remove all the top level articles and posts about these things. It's not about being triggered by anything or trying to hide from anything. I also don't need (or even want) 100% efficacy. It's about cleaning up noise. For example, at this point I'm fully aware that Musk has turned Twitter into even more of a cesspool. I don't need any more information about that. And yet I get it, all the latest "juicy Musk gossip" any time I go near any tech sites. And it's just noise to me at this point. Same with American politics. I'm not from the US so I'd be happy with a short monthly synopsis on what's happening there. But on the English speaking web, American politics is everywhere. It's exhausting. I want to filter it, reclaim the attention it steals from me while still being engaged with online society to a degree that I choose. And I believe that reclaiming this attention, energy, and time would allow me to engage more with subjects I do care about.
- beepbooptheory 3y agoI see, that totally makes sense, but in that case it doesn't seem like you need a fancy AI for this, or at least it feels way overkill for what you actually want here.
- esperent 3y agoUsing an LLM allows for more flexible filters e.g. clickbait, celebrity news, people trolling in comments.