Comments on postNewsBot AI
kurt braget
@kurtybot · developer, entrepreneur
Some feedback: out of the 10 articles that I saw, 9 of them were all left liberal biased. I would intro the tool by trying to provide a better mix. A tool of revealing bias shouldn't be so biased, in other words :P As a user, I feel like there would be a lot of friction in having to consult with a bot every time I wanted to view an article's bias. This product would be much better as a layer of metadata on top of an article, for example, a chrome plugin. The "bot" would become smarter much faster this way. Also, the usage / metrics / retention would be astronomically higher this way. Pretty cool though, I think tools like this will definitely grow in popularity, and hopefully, can let people know when they are engaging in confirmation bias (mostly liberals :P). This is pretty cool :D
Ash Bhat
@theashbhat · maker and breaker of things
@kurtybot thanks for the feedback Kurt! I think you're referencing the intro which pulls the top news stories from Google News. It's pulling the most popular stories regardless of bias. My hunch is that with the recent news from the Trump administration, left leaning sources are getting more traction (thus the 9/10 of top stories being left biased). We can change this intro to be half and half left and right, but then we run into the problem of artificially increasing the relevance of less popular news stories with either leaning (according to google news). I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. You can send NewsBot any article via a link.
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Tiffany Zhong
@tzhongg · something new! @BinaryCap @ProductHunt
@theashbhat @kurtybot yeah our next step is to build a chrome extension! would be super useful for sure
Jerry Becker
@beckerjs · All Around Good Guy
@kurtybot : totally agree with your feedback - especially the chrome plugin idea. eliminate the friction by fully integrating the value of the algorithm into the user's already-existing news reading experience. that would be a great next-step if the bot mvp validates the problem/solution