Hey fellow Lemmings,

I run AI News Summary Bot, a project that brings you News summary! The bot is once again live on our community at !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com

This is just an update as its moved instance to hilariouschaos.com

The bot is still in its early stages, and I’m excited to hear your feedback and suggestions on how to improve it. Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas. I’ve got some free time for development coming up so along with a backlog of features I would appreciate some suggestions in terms of where you would like to see that effort focused.

FAQ: Q: How do I avoid hallucinations? A: I don’t use a traditional GPT model its operating on text sections doing a semantic summarisation.

Q: What’s its accuracy? A: It has a >95% semantic accuracy.

Q: Why did it summarise 2 articles at once A: That’s a known issue with Euronews as a source in some cases I’ve tried to patch it in the past but its an intermittent issue so hard to debug.

Repository: If you’re interested in contributing or exploring the code behind the bot, you can find the repository at https://github.com/muntedcrocodile/ai_news_bot

Donations: If you’re interested in donating to allow me to spend more time developing please do: monero:8916FjDhEqXJqX9Koec9WaZ4QBQAa6sgW6XhQhXSjYWpQiWB42GsggEh73YAFGF86GU2gEE1TTRdWSspuMgpWGkiPHkgBTX

Stay informed, and let’s build this community together!

  • PDFuego@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    When I looked a couple of hours ago the first link’s summary was an enormous block of text with no formatting and the second was about 40 words summarised to 20.

      • PDFuego@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        Obviously. Point is it’s either completely unreadable or completely unnecessary. Why are you summarising a postcard?

        I’m like the only person here actually giving feedback. Make it readable and don’t waste people’s time summarising two sentences.

          • PDFuego@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            16 hours ago

            I don’t think they do convey the same information.

            “They don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.” US President Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary four-letter outburst as he criticised breaches of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Trump aimed the bulk of his anger at Israel, saying he would try to avert further planned attacks.

            vs

            Trump delivered an extraordinary four-letter outburst as he criticised breaches of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Trump aimed the bulk of his anger at Israel, saying he would try to avert further planned attacks.

            All the summary has done is remove the quote. That part IS the news that’s being reported on, it matters just as much as the context.

            Qatar was the “obvious choice” for Iranian retaliation against the US because it hosts the largest US military base in the Middle East while also acting as a trusted intermediary for Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari explained after the missile attack near Doha.

            vs

            Qatar was the “obvious choice” for Iranian retaliation against the US. It hosts the largest US military base in the Middle East.

            This one has removed the source (which is fair enough if you think that’s not useful information, but I wouldn’t agree), one of the two reasons given, and the context. Someone who only sees this summary will have no idea what it’s about or how to look into it further, which means they’re going to have to read the (one sentence) article anyway.

            As for paragraphs, yes. Text that looks like this

            is not useful to anybody. I’m not reading this, you haven’t read this. It’s awful.