New version of AI news bot is available https://github.com/muntedcrocodile/ai_news_bot
The program scrapes news articles from RSS feeds generates an AI summary of the article text and posts the article link along with the api summary to a Lemmy community.
You can find an example deployment of the bot !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com
No the AI summary is not as bad as it sounds. The summary is 60% identical to human generated summary and >95% accurate in meaning.
Although this is getting some downvotes – likely because of the ‘AI’ and ‘bot’ nature of it – I can image the benefits of running this on your own personal Lemmy instance, leveraging it as a sort of RSS skimmer to determine which article were worth diving into or not.
In the roadmap of this project, there looks to be a political alignment feature, which is the big benefit of services like Ground.news and why I subscribe to it as a news service. As well: a feature to summarize a day, week, a month, etc., of news, which may well have the ability to be topical.
I try to bring as much of my reading into an RSS app as possible, rather than leverage algos on social to spoonfeed it to me. And while I love Mastodon, I also have to do a lot of scrolling and manual visiting of profiles to catch up. The same applies to Lemmy.
This may well be a tooling to make the kind of RSS experience I have been wanting, so kudos to the author.
I was gonna work on daily briefing etc next as I fear Lemmy really won’t be a fan of any political alignment measure (whatever I do someone’s gonna call it bias). How does ground news do their alignment measure I assume its a 2D with x axis socialist conservative and y axis authoritarian libertarian type thing? Do they just have a raring for each news source or do they do it per article?
Less of an axis and more of general left-center-right, all with regards to which news outlets tend to lean one way in tone and language choice vs. another. You can select summaries of each bias to understand those choices in the app. It also helps break down a few other items of note:
While this may be beyond the scope of your efforts, it does do some solid highlighting of news sources for me.
There are a few Ground.news bots floating around Lemmy – or at least there used to be – that would comment on posts to provide some or all of the above.
