All my kingdom for this in an HN extension.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank...
Anything that trains on public, unvetted data is a liability for accuracy
This would be a public HN comment evaluation and verification engine in the browser. One could go so far as to build a website based on the concept, consuming the HN firehose and scoring comments as they’re created, an append only transaction log of sorts. Comments are permanent after two hours, so you only have to run each comment through each model once.
“Computah, validate truthiness of all comments in this thread.”
(Bonus points for scoring HN users by how factually accurate they are over time from their comment history)
Purely as an example, when Trump was making the threats against Greenland, I tried asking ChatGPT what the economic implications would be and how to hedge against them, and it had a great deal of difficulty with even the rhetoric being "current events" rather than "a fictional scenario that will never happen".
MBCook•51m ago