Speaking as a consumer of news sources, it doesn’t really help me whether a news publication includes some kind of automated analysis, because I’m really concerned about bias originating from the news source, not the specific writer. Even if it actually works, the news publication is the one that selects the systems used to conduct that analysis. It’s maybe useful for the news publication in identifying bias from the writers working there, but they don’t need to publish that.
However, the idea of running some kind of text classifier to grade an article automatically on metrics like that from a party who isn’t the news source itself is maybe more interesting. Like, I can imagine having a coterie of bots that run here on the Threadiverse, run an automated classification of an article and post it on said article, for example, and then one could block bots that one isn’t interested in seeing.
Speaking as a consumer of news sources, it doesn’t really help me whether a news publication includes some kind of automated analysis, because I’m really concerned about bias originating from the news source, not the specific writer. Even if it actually works, the news publication is the one that selects the systems used to conduct that analysis. It’s maybe useful for the news publication in identifying bias from the writers working there, but they don’t need to publish that.
However, the idea of running some kind of text classifier to grade an article automatically on metrics like that from a party who isn’t the news source itself is maybe more interesting. Like, I can imagine having a coterie of bots that run here on the Threadiverse, run an automated classification of an article and post it on said article, for example, and then one could block bots that one isn’t interested in seeing.