News Minimalist uses AI (ChatGPT-4) to read the top 1000 news every day and rank them by significance on a scale from 0 to 10. Significance is estimated based on eight factors:
- scale: how many people the event affected;
- magnitude: how big was the effect;
- novelty: how unexpected or unique was the event;
- immediacy: how close in time is the event;
- actionability: how likely it is that a reader can act on the news for personal benefit;
- positivity: how positive is the event — used to fix media negativity bias;
- probability: how likely it is that events speculated in the news will actually occur;
- credibility: how credible is the source.
The results are posted on the News Minimalist front page.
