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Ask HN: How would you design a cringe detector?
I have a dream of making a cringe detector - a program that you could input a tweet or image, and it outputs how cringy it is.
I am thinking, it could use a neural net, or not necessary.
I was trying to imagine, how could that thing work? And actually out of clue.
What do you think?
- red_Seashell_32 4y agoBased on what it would calculate it? It’s a spectrum just like “how funny is this”
- armchairhacker 4y agolook up “sentiment analysis NLP”. That is what you want, except instead of detecting whether text has a positive or negative opinion, you detect whether it’s “cringe” / “not cringe”. I would start by building a sentiment-analysis model by following a tutorial like [1]. Except instead of a dataset with data labeled “positive opinion” and “negative opinion”, you need data labeled “cringe” and “not cringe”. The hard part is finding and classifying that data: remember that if you just take a bunch of “cringe” and ordinary tweets, you may be training for spurious correlations like “hot take” which your model will misinterpret as being “cringe” [1] https://huggingface.co/blog/sentiment-analysis-python#3-building-your-own-sentiment-analysis-model https://huggingface.co/blog/sentiment-analysis-python#3-buil...
- newbieuser 4y agoif trained via reddit, i think you could call any content cringe. maybe by finding people from different segments to rate whether certain content is cringe.