Principle
Facts before framing
Each story starts from clustered source material, not a single headline. The recap separates what outlets actually report from how they interpret it.
How it works
A brief built to make contested news more readable.
Dialectic Digest is not a fake “AI debate the news” gimmick. It is a reading tool that forces one structured argument/counterargument loop on top of clustered, multi-source coverage and then tells you what is well supported, what is still uncertain, and what would change the conclusion.
MVP decisions
- 3 stories by default to keep cost bounded.
- Up to 5 sources per story.
- One structured LLM call per story, with validation and retry.
- Browser-local archive instead of auth or server persistence.
Principle
Steelman both sides
The model is instructed to make the strongest case for the dominant narrative and the strongest counterargument, then expose the weakness in each.
Principle
No false balance
If the evidence is lopsided, the synthesis says so. The goal is legibility, not performative neutrality.