It took me a while to figure out that I should drag the headline left or right. I first tried to click the red "fake" and green "not", I tried to click on the headline, etc.
I then realized that it was written in the light grey message to which I was not paying attention.
It may be my fault, just giving the feedback in case it can help to improve the UX.
We live in crazy times - but can you tell how crazy?
Hello HN,
A friend and I made this to show two things:
- Neural networks have become incredibly good at producing grammatically correct but completely nonsensical text
- There are so many nonsensical headlines nowadays, it's hard to distinguish fake from real
Very good. I thought I'd have no trouble but did. On windows , where there's loads of room, if you had fake and true to either side of the cards that would be helpful
I will say that the interface feels a bit mobile-first to a fault: the swiping interaction isn't very desktop friendly. It'd be nice to have some buttons to click on for those of us using mice or trackpads.
I don't think I can agree with the claim about perfect grammar, a lot of the fake headlines had grammatical errors.
I found the easy way of identifying the real from the fake (aside from the grammatical errors) was basically the absurd or extreme (typical clickbait) vs logical nonsense.
Examples
> The haunted is not what we think it's
> The Most Common Words You'd Name You... But Couldn't Names
Grammatical error
> These adorable pets are supporting the womens march
Just typical clickbait
> Shane Nakua's Cameo Line is just like any young girl's face
I don't understand what that is actually trying to say, so I put it in the logical nonsense pile.
The backgrounds disappear for me and all the headlines melt together, so I can't distinguish them before making my choice. I'm using adblocker and an old version of chrome though, so might only be a problem for me. Image: ibb.co/qg9yrMh
It may be my fault, just giving the feedback in case it can help to improve the UX.