BoringReport removes sensationalism and clickbait from news articles by passing them through an AI model, and then presents a boring, more readable summary.
I recently wrote about an app called Shortwave and its AI summarizer feature, which turns long, bland emails into short summaries with most of the core details intact. I’ve gotten used to that convenience to such an extent that I now want a summarized version of all the content that I read online, especially verbose news stories. By sheer luck, I came across the listing of a new app called Boring Report.
Related Vasishta also pointed out that a healthy bunch of publications have their own biases, which can either result from an institutional direction or an individual’s discretion. In either case, the news articles – right from the headline and nut graph – tend to lose that aura of objectivity and unbiased flavor many expect from journalism.
The interface is extremely easy to use. The UI design, staying true to the app’s core appeal of keeping things straight, is clean and minimalist. It’s almost as if you’re reading on a Kindle or any other e-ink gadget. There are no colorful graphic elements, no fancy design waves, or any other colorful graphical distraction.
The best part is that if you don’t find your favorite publication in the list of news cards — you can just pull up the outlet’s website in a browser and share the URL with Boring Report. In doing so, the app will launch, and within 10 seconds, you will get a summarized and non-dramatized version of that story on your screen. Another underrated perk is that you no longer have to see ads, autoplaying video embeds, or those pesky cookie permissions on websites while reading articles.
A few pitfalls — and some future plans Not everything is perfect here. One of the most exciting features of the app is its ability to generate a boring version of an article you come across on the web. It works … for the most part. In a handful of cases, what I noticed is that the AI was fed the URL of an article, but it instead presented a tweaked version of an entirely different report from the same publication.
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