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Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles

https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector
38•skorniienko•1h ago

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cawingcrow•45m ago
That's too much effort. Should have been a browser extension that uses ollama so it can run with local models or maybe even openrouter...
skorniienko•17m ago
That's fair. Install is a one time real friction and extension would be much simpler.

But, there is a reason why it's not an extension. At least for now. Whole product isn't a UI or service, it's a set of skills for your AI agent of choice, which gets content from URL or whatever shared as a source, splits it into claims and does extensive web searches for every claim to compare it with statement from provided content.

On local models constraint isn't a model itself - but search. Model don't judge from it's trained memory, so even local model will need a backend for search, otherwise it can't provide a verdict.

khalic•40m ago
Awesome idea
skorniienko•26m ago
Thank you! Would love to hear your results if you'll have a chance to try it
mysterydip•34m ago
What do you use as “ground truth”? The page says “independent sources”, and I’m sure there’s too many to list, but my question is how are they vetted as being truthful and how are two sources with opposite viewpoints reconciled?
skorniienko•23m ago
There is no whitelist source. It can't rate sources for truthfulness. When sources conflicts - skill drops verdict to misleading or unverifiable and both are linked. Can't pick a winner at the moment. That's probably the weakest part and still a judgement call for a model.
gutechh•5m ago
Maybe you read them already, but wikipedia has a bunch of interesting pages about sourcing and truth like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_t... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
simonw•6m ago
Something I've found surprisingly effective is telling ChatGPT to "use credible sources" - you can then watch its thinking trace and see it do things like ruling out random blogs, considering media publications with a good reputation for fact checking, and double-checking information that seems unlikely.
skorniienko•5m ago
Love it, I'll run tests for "credible sources" and will compare the results. Could be a first feature-request implemented!
outime•32m ago
The author is posting comments here (all flagged at this time) that are very clearly AI slop, which is quite ironic.
skorniienko•27m ago
Fair, drafted posts with claude, getting all my comments flagged. Thought that something is wrong with my account. Writing myself from here
NetOpWibby•15m ago
Bro, you don’t have to outsource your brain for basic communication on the internet.

HN’s community has built-in bullshit detectors.

skorniienko•13m ago
You are right, no excuses. Will have few grammar errors but I'll own them. Cheers!
N_Lens•31m ago
Who checks the checkers?
skorniienko•15m ago
At the moment - it's model's judgement upon search results for every claim from provided content. If search results returned inaccurate data, or were fabricated - it might affect a verdict for that claim, or highlight that it's unverifiable or contradictory.

But there is a room for improvement, what do you suggest? Have a Judge agent which will check results?

qntmfred•10m ago
me. I volunteer as ultimate arbiter of Truth.
skorniienko•6m ago
maybe some community-driven and curated source blacklist could be implemented. It thing it would be too much for you doing that alone :)
ck2•16m ago
Washington Post gave up tracking Trump lies last term in 2021 because it became impossible by human hands with 21+ per day and over 30,000 in their database

but with "AI" now it's possible not only to do non-stop but in REALTIME

you could even just restrict the source of the check to the paper's own reporting the past fifty years

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim...

I'd like to see that backfilled, all the way back to the "long form birth certificate" (remember that horror show)

egeozcan•5m ago
Can someone please use this skill against the claims in its own repo?
lynx97•5m ago
> Long output? Redirect to a file and read it from there:

Hmm, smells AI generated. Why should an LLM (this is from a SKILL.md) care about $LINES?

KOReader

https://koreader.rocks/
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