Hey fellow Lemmings,
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of AI News Summary Bot, a project that brings you News summary! The bot is now live on our community at !news_summary@lemmy.dbzer0.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.
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!
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I’m going to be another Negative Nancy commenting, but I really dislike the recent trend of having everything summarized by AI. News articles are, by definition, already summaries of events (hopefully summarized by a human, but that’s becoming rarer and rarer recently). Is it really necessary to further filter them through another robotic sieve and strip them from even more meaning and soul? How busy are we really that we need a machine to summarize news, videos and even emails for us?
I strongly believe that reading things written by humans has value. Regardless whether it’s War and Peace, a comic book or an email from my colleague, I want to read them just as their authors wrote them, instead of having a Markov chain machine retell them to me. Call me old and curmudgeonly, but I actually WANT to spend time reading, experience all the human quirks, biases, typos, mistakes and everything else that’s stripped away whena text is fed into a machine, because it tells me things about the author in addition to the content itself. Hell, the whole reason I started learning English (not my mother language) in the first place was because I wanted to read The Lord of the Rings as Tolkien himself wrote it, without it being filtered through a translator (even though the translation I read was actually excellent).
A long and unnecessary rant, I know, but I wish humanity didn’t immediately jump on the AI bandwagon in anything and everything. Books, articles and videos don’t really need to be summarized IMHO, and I think we lose way more through it than the minuscule amount of time we gain…
Which model are you using? I see it’s it utilizing huggingface? Won’t you run into rate limits?
Also genai summarizing tends to not be very accurate. I suggest you include some commands which can try to recreate the summary or mark it as flawed. Maybe used by trusted audience too.
The model is Falconsai/text_summarization
Hugging face is first and formost a model repo not a hosting provider. Im running the model locally (its very lightwright hence no rate limmit issues).
Its a model with the sole purpose of summarisation its not a gpt model so generation has far less issues that are responsible for most hulucination issues seen.
It’s less that it’s going to hallucinate (even though it can reasonably do that) it’s that these sort of summaries don’t actually condense the most salient areas of the post, but the most statistically relevant.
Anyway if run it locally, you can consider using something like Aphrodite to more efficiently use your compute. Also consider crossposting to !lemmy_integrations@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Yeah these sorts of summaries get pretty weird. It’s hard to really grasp why they are flawed without looking at a topic you are knowledgeable about and finding something doing a summary. but for these, it can be easier to just read the article, try summarizing it yourself for another human, and then reading the ai summary. They are rarely good, and complacency is dangerous.
Cool project, thanks for sharing!
No thank you,
blocked the bot user + community.One of the nice features of the Fediverse, though not one I use too often.
I use it very often since I tend to browse the “All” section,
however that needs blocking and post filtering to keep unwanted content out.a few days ago I tried browsing the All feed from my alt account and was… quickly back to my ‘Subscribed’ only mode ;)
There was so much porn/erotic and bizarre stuff, not even mentioning low effort content. I did not remember there had been that much porn last time I checked. Don’t get me wrong, people are more than welcome to share and enjoy whatever they fancy but now even more than before I still think the ‘All’ timeline should come with an explicit and very visible warning saying that unlike with more centralized social media there is almost no filtering and no control of the type of content that is shared and that one will be exposed to stuff they don’t like.
Is NSFW content enabled on your alt?
Also, Jlailu defederates lemmynsfw.com IIRC
I hear you.
Personally I mostly browse through Eternity,
which easily allows to block NSFW content :)
Makes sense. I almost exclusively browse /subscribed, and rarely check /all.
You might miss out on new/interesting communities that way though :)
Perhaps, but that is a risk I’m willing to take. I already have more communities than I can keep up with, and I’m also subscribed to !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, so I see a fair number of new communities :)
This way we can skip reading articles written by bots and have them summarized by a bot.
Ur always welcome to stick ur head in the sand and not read anything.
if the only alternative to reading bots summarizing bot written articles is read nothing, what is anyone even doing, you know?
Well if the articles my bot is summarisation are written by bots then almost every article posted to lemmy was written by a bot.
I love seeing new bot projects on Lemmy! You’ll likely encounter some general anti-AI pushback from some users. I myself am still undecided on the usefulness of this type of bot.
Could you provide some more info on how it will be deployed? Is the bot restricted to just the one community?
I recall another bot which would post article summaries as comments across multiple communities. Is this bot related to that one in any way?
Thanks for working on building tools for the Fediverse!
Ive already encountered the push back lol.
As of present its just deployed to that 1 community but its foss so u can deploy it wherever u want for whatever rss feed u want.
I liked the other bot but they dev shut it down cos push back and it was banned from everywhere. I was inspired by it and figured if its in its own community then people wpuldnt complain as bad (i was wrong about that).
Thx for the support if u got any feedback lmk.
