Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

What model do you use to summarize?

Great for a text terminal browser!

As a test, I used the term ''golden syrup'' in the following recipe search engine:

https://recipe-search.typesense.org/?r

The first result was an eyesore made only slightly less objectionable by filtering and blocking:

https://www.food.com/recipe/golden-syrup-141640

but then passing that URL through this tool yielded clear, simple, de-enshittified results. Bravo!

Using a bullshit generator to remove bullshit seems questionable. That said I sympathize with your frustration over the flood of pure garbage that's drown the web.

This is not a problem I feel, the nuggets of content are easy to find and read imho and I think there is a greater chance the AI will mess up the content's meaning. If you returned the full text of the article, that'd be cool.

Where your solution has potential is in removing the idiotic EU cookie banners, various useless popups, banners, obnoxious menus, autoplaying videos and what not.

If news websites were just a repository of text files, that would be great.

"cut the crap", "AI bullshit", "promise, but never give", "full of clickbait", "scary claims", "pointless filler", "frustrating", "waste of time", "all that noise", "all the nonsense", "removes the crap"...

I like your energy.

Makes me think of bullshit.js bookmarklet

https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/

I'm sorry, but I can't help with "remove the AI bullshit from websites". Perhaps I can instead write you some convincing blogspam to maximize ad clicks?

when API and larger context window? i'm interested in using it in production

I don't see any crap. I see a website that belongs to somebody else and I'm free to take it or leave it.

Apparently the cut-the-crab website is content-free, since when run on itself it failed to produce any output.

I bookmarked this comment a few months ago because I thought it was hilarious and increasingly accurate:

It's approaching a very strange situation where people make overly wordy and bloated AI generated content and other people try to use AI to compress it back into useful pellets vaguely corresponding to the actual prompts used to generate the initial content. Which were the only bits anybody cared about in the first place. One guy pays the AI to dig a hole, the other guy pays the AI to fill in the hole. Back and forth they go, raising the BNP but otherwise not accomplishing anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635079

More seriously though; I wonder if/when we will reach a point at which asking for a Neuromancer-esque précis summary video of a topic will replace the experience of browsing and reading various sources of information. My gut feeling is that it will for many, but not all scenarios, because the act of browsing itself is desirable and informative. For example, searching for books on Amazon is efficient but it doesn’t quite replace the experience of walking through a bookstore.

Does it use AI to remove the AI bullshit?

This is cool. How do you intend this to be different from general chat-based AI tools out there? Meaning, I can already do something like this with ChatGPT or similar.

Is the idea that your site works with sites that are blocking ChatGPT, or is the goal to be a more native browsing experience (via chrome extension)?

If I give ChatGPT your comment (slightly edited):

” I’ve spent a lot of time reading articles that promise a lot but never give me what I’m looking for. They’re full of clickbait titles, scary claims, and pointless filler. It’s frustrating, and it’s a waste of my time. gives you a shorter version of the content without all the nonsense. I’m tired of falling for the same tricks. I just want the facts, not a bunch of filler.

Here’s the URL: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/1...

I get this:

” President-elect Donald Trump attended the reopening of Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral, marking his first international trip since the election. French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Trump at the Élysée Palace, where they were joined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for discussions on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The reopening ceremony, attended by over 50 world leaders, celebrated the cathedral’s restoration following the 2019 fire. First Lady Jill Biden represented the current U.S. administration at the event.”

Cut-The-Crap gives me this, which is also good, but not necessarily a benefit over what I already have:

” French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to the Elysée Palace in Paris ahead of the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, which has been closed since a devastating fire in 2019. This marks Trump's first trip abroad since his election.

Macron is set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Trump, and the three leaders will meet together. Approximately 50 world leaders are expected to attend the cathedral's reopening, although President Joe Biden will be represented by First Lady Jill Biden.

Trump and Zelenskyy last met in September during the UN General Assembly. Despite speculation of a meeting during this visit, a Trump transition official stated no such meeting was planned.

Macron has positioned himself as a mediator in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which began in February 2022. The U.S., France, and allies have imposed sanctions on Russia to support Ukraine's territorial integrity. Zelenskyy has urged the Biden administration for more support, including lifting restrictions on Ukraine's military actions against Russia.”