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by ilovefood 912 days ago
I'm using it to filter out the content that's displayed in my browser screen as I browse: https://karimjedda.com/llms-in-the-middle-content-aware-clie...

Essentially, I wrote a small browser extension, that takes the content of LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube posts/titles, and filters them out based on if they are clickbait, low effort, etc.

It's liberating :D
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wood_spirit 912 days ago
The thing that made the initial chatgpt refreshing was the lack of ads - it wasn’t trying to sell you anything. This obviously will not continue; commercial pressures will direct AI efforts towards being a better ad pusher.

So the AI of the social media sites will end trying to get the crap past your local AI filters, in a big AI arms race :)

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ilovefood 912 days ago
I would say, bring it on! Nothing will make it past my phi-2 or mistral-7B-v0.1 ^^, at least for now.

I think what this could lead to is homogenization of the content serving layer, since all you'd really need is to get content to the user that can move their filters from one site to the other, the display layer being less relevant (and differentiating). But let's see, exciting times.

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firtoz 912 days ago
That's awesome, I want to do something similar: categorize the content in social media, so I can choose what to see when I want. Sometimes I want to avoid politics, sometimes I'm ok with it, for example. Sometimes I want to see only content about game development.

What's your plan with your project, will you turn it into a product for others, open source it, or neither? I would love it if it was either of the former!

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ilovefood 912 days ago
Thank you very much for the supporting words, I've been getting lots of positive feedback from this. The end of year workload has made it such though that I need to be mindful of time. I think one of the two first options will be the way to go. I'll post an update here as I always do with my small projects.
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gardenhedge 911 days ago
A video of before and after would do wonders.

Also, if this could show stats and graphs on the topics the user has been exposed to and what has been blocked out it would be amazing.

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