It’s interesting. (tl;dr version: it’s a potentially rich source of different versions of the same stories from hundreds of different sources, which gives a very wide view of how stories are being reported in the US (or your area, you can choose when you set up your feed).)
The home page shows a selection of story headlines, culled from numerous sources. I think the headlines are written by Ground News, or maybe AI, based on all the sources. For each headline of a story, they tell you how many sources, and the bias rating, i.e. what percentage are left, center and right (center is defined as no discernible bias, left and right have degrees of bias or loaded language). These bias ratings are for the source as a whole, not for individual stories.
If you click on a headline, you will see an AI-generated summary of all the source stories, followed by a list of the actual source stories. For each source, they show the owner of the source, the Factuality Score and the bias rating (these evaluations are all of the source, not of the individual story). They show the headline and the beginning of the story for each source, and then a link to click if you want to look at the whole story. They start with six or so sources, and then a link to get more sources for that story. I haven’t gone all the way through any particular story, but I presume you can see them all if you want to. I don’t know how they determine what order the sources are shown in.
So for example, the top headline on the left of the Home page is “Donald Trump says he won’t debate Kamala Harris again.” Then it shows 39% left sources, and undefined numbers of center and right sources, and that they used 117 sources.
Click on the headline, and you see the same headline followed by a 3 bullet-point summary of the story, apparently compiled by AI. The summary in this case is pretty Trump-heavy, factual, but barely mentioning Harris except as being criticized by Trump. It’s not clear why that is.
Then the actual articles are shown, headline and beginning of story. It says 224 articles (so average of about 2 articles per source, I guess). The first one listed is from KVIA, a local TV site I guess, but the story was put out by CNN. Kind of confusing, because they call CNN leaning left, but they call KVIA center.
You have the opportunity to give feedback on several of these points. You can say if you think the AI summary is wrong, you can object to the bias rating of any source, and you can report the article, I don’t know what that’s about.
There are other pages for local news, and for Blindspot, which is supposed to be stories that are being reported on the “other side” that you might not be reading. Both are a combination of interesting and not so much. There is also a page “For You” but I can’t figure out the rationale for the selection of stories on that page. The treatment for the headlines, summaries, and story presentation seems to be about the same as for the stories on the Home page.
When you first sign up you can choose areas of interest, and you can change those at any time. I didn’t count them but there were maybe 20 areas, including some that seemed pretty narrow to me. The areas of interest will dictate the stories that are presented to you.
This site clearly has a heavy reliance on AI to process all these stories, but I don’t think the bias ratings or the factuality score of the individual sources are done by AI. At least I hope not, it seems far too complex and with the kinds of judgment that AI is not (yet) equipped to do. Maybe I’m being naïve.
Do report back.