https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42964280
Hi HN, Wanted to share a project I made over the weekend - a real-time fascism tracker. The site fetches recent news from trusted sources, filters it for keywords related to fascism and the current US administration, and then sends it to GPT-4o for classification according to the 14 characteristics of fascism described by Dr. Lawrence Britt. With the rapid pace of news in the US, especially post-election, it’s hard to keep up. I built this site so you can quickly see important topics and draw parallels with similar historical events. Would love to hear your thoughts. - Ryan
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Religion and government are intertwined: low threat level
Did they stop printing “in god we trust” on dollars and swearing oaths on the bible?
High level of religious and government mixing is when the dollar says “in god we trust”
What is it to you, bishops in congress? Nevermind the normalization of pushing christianity through government property then, what about Trump creating a religious office to target anti-christian bias?
If the threshold for “high danger” to secularism is religious imagery in governemnt issued things, then probably most of the world would be classified as “high danger.” This would, as you could guess, make the whole metric pointless against actual dangers.
Nitpicking these small things first instead of showing the big thing first, like you did, is counter productive. People aren’t affected by phrases in money, but they sure as hell will be affected by that in the article, so start with that.
I was intentionally making a snarky remark, but not purposefully being counter productive. That article is breaking news, I just saw it after posting the comment.
The point I was(n’t) trying to make is that the US has a substantial level of religion in its politics, and it’s just so pervasively normal.
Other than the fact that the very purpose of replacing the old motto with “In God We Trust” was to link religion, state, and capital during the Cold War.
Would you like to guess what the name is for the union of state, enterprise, and religion?
BuT tHaT wAs sO lOnG aGo
Yes… Yes it was.
“Current Threat Level: Low”
I think you’re running against the limits of what an LLM can really effectively judge. And, how it’s been fine-tuned to be “safe” and nonoffensive in the way that it speaks.
running [up] against the limits of what an LLM can really effectively judge
Yeah it’s pretty easy to run up against “anything of consequence.”
Its decent, but I feel like chatGPT doesn’t have a good grasp on the current situation. It claims that Nationalism and Religion are low threat levels, while I think these are right up there with the rest of them as critical, especially with the recent news of Trump’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast.
I think the problem is that it’s using news articles, a big percentage of which are going to be corporate news, which will downplay any fascistic threats that may help their bottom line or hurt readership. They also may not cover stories that wont get many clicks.
It also seems to be mostly quantity based for determining severity. Which is fairly dumb, like many LLM based projects.
True
Same goes for high military spending.
I’m not a US citizen. But to me the US is known as “shoving a US Flag into your face at EVERY opportunity” and “overspending and gloryfication of militarism”.
Those categories should’ve started out in the high-risk level…
That’s a nice site.
Thanks!Great idea, but I think this would be a better model to use.
https://huggingface.co/mlburnham/Political_DEBATE_large_v1.0?library=transformers
ChatGPT is… not actually great at deal with extreme speech. Too many guardrails, too much of a default towards caution.
@fxomt@lemm.ee I am allowing it this will help us know about What Fascist thing is happening. So, Yeah and another post too.
Also, I am not Bias I am not american I just hate Melon Husk
eh its fine, i just reported it since i dont like to see US politics everywhere even in general communities, and because of rule 1. And it takes away attention from other posts, so while they sit at 20 upvotes and 0 comments for example the US politics one has 200 and 10 comments ie (KIM im not american, and i hate muskrat too)
It’s your community, i respect your decision.
Shared feeling
Yeah i get why this is important but couldn’t it have been posted to an appropriate community? The mod made his decision though, who am i to argue against it
A lot of these have been true for over a century.
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