Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles

cawingcrow

That's too much effort. Should have been a browser extension that uses ollama so it can run with local models or maybe even openrouter...

khalic

Awesome idea

mysterydip

What do you use as “ground truth”? The page says “independent sources”, and I’m sure there’s too many to list, but my question is how are they vetted as being truthful and how are two sources with opposite viewpoints reconciled?

outime

The author is posting comments here (all flagged at this time) that are very clearly AI slop, which is quite ironic.

N_Lens

Who checks the checkers?

ck2

Washington Post gave up tracking Trump lies last term in 2021 because it became impossible by human hands with 21+ per day and over 30,000 in their database but with "AI" now it's possible not only to do non-stop but in REALTIME you could even just restrict the source of the check to the paper's own reporting the past fifty years * https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim... I'd like to see that backfilled, all the way back to the "long form birth certificate" (remember that horror show)

egeozcan

Can someone please use this skill against the claims in its own repo?

lynx97

> Long output? Redirect to a file and read it from there: Hmm, smells AI generated. Why should an LLM (this is from a SKILL.md) care about $LINES?

amelius

Funny, I recently pasted output from Gemini into Claude, and it said it was total nonsense generated by an overconfident AI. Apparently the "AI-generated bullshit" detection is already part of LLMs.

leobg

I don't even watch most videos anymore. YouTube app -> Share -> Gemini -> Summary. Only if that shows interesting content do I actually watch.

quard8

nice! my built-in BS detector: "comment "prompt" and i will send you a guide".

o10449366

god i wish these low effort projects were banned from Show HN the entire premise of a "bullshit detector" that's entirely vibe-coded is laughable

h2aichat

I like the idea! How can you let folks know they're being fed nonsense before they even finish the intro?

alealvarezarg

I think this would have a much bigger impact as short-form video content such as TikTok, Reels or Shorts. That's where most people consume this kind of content today, not in a .md file. What would really set it apart is adding fact-checking before publishing and letting it post directly to TikTok. That combination would make it something I'd actually use every day.

madmaniak

For truth checking actual thinking and logic is required. It doesn't seem to be a proper tool for the task.