A service of some sort to cluster news? - eviltoast

I’m using Feedly (google reader clone) to keep track of my news. However, there are tons of duplicates (same event/topic different sources).

I was just thinking about using text summaries + similarity analysis (possible AI driven) to cluster groups of articles. Are there already solutions for that? I could build it myself, but I’m not exactly the best web dev.

  • earthling@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    This came to my attention recently via someone I follow on Mastodon. I haven’t set time aside yet to set it up and try it out but since I heard about ChatGPT, etc, I thought this would be an excellent use of the tech.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      That’s pretty much, what I hoped for, but too closed for my taste. I can’t define my own feed to summarize, for example.

      (and I don’t get any German news, which is a bummer if you actually live in Germany)

      • oldfart@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I actually wrote to the author, not being from the US too, and they said they are working on a version where you can specify your country/location. Nothing about adding your news sources, though

        • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          As I wrote in the update above, I might just write it myself, it seems surprisingly easy given the availability of pretrained models.

          How fast that will be in practice is another question.

  • brechmos@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I wish there something like that for RSS feeds. That would be fantastic.

    For news specifically, Google News and Ground.news both aggregate and cluster similar news articles.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I don#t know ground news, but Google News is really weird for me and doesn’t let me choose my own sources. There are several news outlets here with a negative information content.

  • StefanT@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I use the Nextcloud news app which is a RSS feed reader. But mainly because I run a Nextcloud instance anyways. For news only I would not install Nextcloud - too much overhead.