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Show HN: Is this headline fake or not?

by tristan123456 on 6/14/20, 12:17 PM with 17 comments

• by eyx on 6/15/20, 9:11 AM

  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.

• by tristan123456 on 6/14/20, 12:17 PM

  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

  Have fun!

  Happy for all feedback. GitHub at https://github.com/TristanMenzinger/IsThisHeadlineFakeOrNot (frontend only).

• by rgossiaux on 6/15/20, 9:11 AM

  Fun idea!

  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.

• by sdflhasjd on 6/15/20, 12:57 PM

  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.

• by Vagantem on 6/15/20, 8:56 AM

  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

• by Aeolun on 6/15/20, 10:49 AM

  I think the problem with this is that it’s not fun because it’s too hard :/ headlines have seriously degenerated.

• by henearkr on 6/15/20, 9:16 AM

  Web gangsters will definetly appreciate this great new training resource! ;)

• by sabas123 on 6/15/20, 8:53 AM

  This made me tilted from losing too much