About PickYourBias

Why I Made This

I created PickYourBias mostly for fun, but also because I noticed something about my own news consumption – I was living in an echo chamber. Most of us are. We tend to read news that already aligns with what we believe.

This project is basically a way to show how the same story can look completely different depending on who istelling it. I'm not an AI ethics expert or a media scholar – just someone who thought it would be interesting to see these biases side by side in an obvious way.

It's kind of satirical, kind of educational, but mostly just an experiment to make people go "huh, that's interesting" when they see how dramatically different the same news can be presented.

How It Works

I use AI to generate different versions of news articles based on various political and ideological slants. It's a simple concept: take the same basic facts and see how they get spun when viewed through different lenses.

• AI generates articles with different biases
• You can compare how the same story gets told differently
• It's pretty obvious when you see them side by side
• Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's concerning

The Tech Stuff

I built this using Next.js, React, and some AI language models. I'm the only developer on this project, and I put it together as a side project because I thought the concept was cool.

The site is pretty straightforward – pick a bias, read the news through that lens, then try another bias and see how different it looks. It's a simple way to visualize something we all know happens but don't always notice.

What You Might Get Out Of It

If you play around with this site, you might:

• Notice patterns in how different sources frame the same events
• Recognize some of these patterns in your regular news sources
• Maybe laugh at how over-the-top some of the biases can be
• Think twice about headlines that seem designed to trigger specific reactions

Just So You Know

Everything on this site is AI-generated. Even this entire about section. The whole frontend was written by Claude. None of it is real news. It's all made up to illustrate a point about media bias. Don't cite any of this as fact – that would be missing the point entirely.

This is just a fun experiment to make media bias more obvious and maybe get people to think about how the news they consume might be shaping their views.