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by btutal 2664 days ago
Good job man, have you ever considered taking it few steps further.

I would really appreciate, if an application would go through my RSS feeds and offer me neutral news (without any comments or etc.) only facts in summary.

Imagine you have 15 different news from 15 different sources about same topic. Let's say "Microsoft's new Chromium-Edge Browser" Each tech site is writing about it from their perspective. Some say it is quite cool, some say it is just a Chrome clone. I would appreciate a summary of this 15 web site without additional comments.

What do you think?

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I wrote a news website[https://todayheadlines.live/] which show news with similar topic in a cluster form. My pipeline do collect content data as well. However, I am not very sure how to properly summarized all the perspectives.
I actually really like your idea and it can be implemented very quickly.

This project is currently run for the subreddit of my country and the users have liked it a lot, the summaries often remove the bias and keep the facts.

I can make a subproject that will load rhe urls from a rss feed and create shorter summaries. Thankfully I would recycle 90% of the codebase.

It can even be a feature for platforms like Feedly. When I think about the time that i spent to check daily news. I would be willing to pay a small monthly fee to get that kind of summaries.
quite interesting idea, it's on my todolist for Aktu, a rss reader / news aggregator i built (https://aktu.io/about). For now Aktu groups together articles in your feeds that are about the same stories, to you can easily check other sources perspectives. But it misses the summary/facts.