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
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…