Comment by yamazakiwi
2 years ago
What exactly does "What exactly does "desensationalize the news" mean?" mean?
I think what you're really saying is: "I'm less interested in the work this person did to make something cool; selfishly, I'd like to know if it follows my biases so I can judge it based on politics."
Or you're just curious how it works and haven't spent the effort trying it out, which is valid.
What a weirdly aggressive attack... Either I'm selfish and have a lot of biases or I'm lazy.
Could it not be that as a person with an interest in AI and general technology I am wondering if there is any detail on what does an "AI" look for to determine a "sensationalist" title and how does it "desensationalize" it?
I have scanned the twitter feed and the app and just wondering if there is anything on how it works. The answer can be no.
I'm not trying to attack you, I was dissecting your intentions, which I'm now noticing came off as super rude and I apologize for that.
But let's be frank... It's clear through your verbiage that you were either thinking about this politically or were actually just curious as I stated in my previous message.
I never said you were lazy, there are many reasons why you might not be able to try out the product right now and it's totally normal to ask questions when you assume others might have answers. It's also possible to do selfish things, or think selfishly at times and not be a selfish person, I was not trying to antagonize.
Sorry for misunderstanding your intentions, for some reason when you asked "What does desensationalize exactly mean?" I read it particularly negatively.
I read the OPs comment seemingly in a completely different way than you.
To me, it's just a comment asking how it may work (technically). Pretty normal to ask that on HN. The persons feelings or intentions aren't reflected in the comment and I think aren't relevant to the question either way.
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This is unnecessarily presumptive and negative. They have a simple question - and that doesn't mean they didn't try it out to see how it works from the user side of things.
The way the question was asked was not asked as if by a person who was simply curious, so yes I was negative.
It'd be interesting to see a variant of this app with a slider bar, allowing one to drag a widget to see the exact same stories but with say, far-left, left, center, right or far-right biases applied.