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Ask HN: Is anyone with AI expertise analyzing JFK files?
The JFK Files, some of which were just released today, are thousands of text-based PDF files. They seem like a really good match for the capabilities of current LLMs.
Is there anyone who's making a serious attempt at extracting data and analyzing the JFK files?
- Terr_ 2y agoExactly what use-case do you think LLMs would help with? They might help people who don't know the exact terms or synonyms they want to search for, but they don't make logical inferences or detect contradictions. If anything there's a risk that they'll inject bias from blogposts and fiction-books and conspiracy-stories present in all the training-data.
- theoryofx 2y agoYeah, I expect it'd mostly be useful for OCR and search. These are hard to read PDF files and there's a lot of them. I found a few projects related to using AI with The JFK Files but they all seem old or uninteresting. Which is why I'm asking here.
- Terr_ 2y agoSome prior discussion prompted by "Why LLMs Suck at OCR": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958
- theoryofx 2y agoI've tested Gemini 2.0 Flash on a bunch of the JFK Files PDFs and it's excellent. Even with extremely blurry typewriter scans that are difficult for me to decipher. It's incredible. I'm sure there's cases where it will fail but just OCRing 90% of the files would be a big win.
- StanislavPetrov 2y agoI think one useful use-case would be having an LLM compare today's release with what has been released in the past so one could focus on what was actually newly released (or redacted).
- hbcondo714 2y agoYes: JFK Assassination Files Chatbot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43407685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43407685
- theoryofx 2y agoOkay this looks pretty good. Also just found https://github.com/amasad/jfk_files https://github.com/amasad/jfk_files although it's only 1000 files or so.
- dragonwriter 2y agoYes, and the conclusion is that the JFK files released today are the exact same set released under Biden with a new cover sheet on the package.
- theoryofx 2y agoIs this "conclusion" based a single social media post? I'd expect that at the very least this release includes fewer redactions. But I have yet to see anyone do the analysis.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- 13years 2y agoMention a few here, but my intent of writing this was mainly a warning of don't put much weight into any AI analysis. https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-analysis-of-the-jfk-files https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-analysis-of-the-jfk-files
- eriktheviking81 2y agoI built one with a graph DB based RAG approach at https://www.jfksearch.ai https://www.jfksearch.ai