Bullshit Detector - Agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
Bullshit Detector is a set of portable Agent Skills that empower AI assistants like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to rigorously fact-check online content. By analyzing YouTube videos, TikTok clips, articles, and PDFs, it extracts individual claims, verifies them against independent sources, and assigns a transparent 0–10 BS score. Built with plain markdown and self-contained Python, this tool solves the problem of viral misinformation by separating content ingestion from critical analysis, ensuring users never have to take hype at face value.
Views, production value, and confidence are not evidence. The fix is boring: extract every claim, check each against independent sources, and score what survives.
- mysterydip
What do you use as “ground truth”? The page says “independent sources”, and I’m sure there’s too many to list, but my question is how are they vetted as being truthful and how are two sources with opposite viewpoints reconciled?
- egeozcan
Can someone please use this skill against the claims in its own repo?
- alealvarezarg
I think this would have a much bigger impact as short-form video content such as TikTok, Reels or Shorts. That's where most people consume this kind of content today, not in a .md file.
What would really set it apart is adding fact-checking before publishing and letting it post directly to TikTok. That combination would make it something I'd actually use every day.
- h2aichat
I like the idea! How can you let folks know they're being fed nonsense before they even finish the intro?
- N_Lens
Who checks the checkers?