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I’m very enthusiastic about the possibility that someone will shortly build an AI plugin that identifies use of propaganda and “advertising techniques” as I browse the web. A lot of this stuff flies under my radar and having a guide to help me out is something I would really value, for me and my children.

I should add I’ve checked out whether ChatGPT can do this, and discovered it can do a reasonable job - even back in the days of 3.5.

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How did you use ChatGPT for this?

I gave it a piece of text from a Guardian op ed and asked it to identify the rhetorical devices used in the piece.

I suspect it would be possible to now create a GPT by uploading a file listing the various rhetorical/propaganda tricks deployed in media and then asking the GPT to analyse submitted text from that perspective.

At that point, you should ask yourself what is the function of news? The whole of information is editorial. Aside from technical information which is factual, even discussing 'kinds of' news is biased.

You could maybe aggregate biased news like "trump supporter did this" or "patriot did that" and it would just tell you "someone was shot in a place you never heard of".

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