The OtherSide

Inspiration

The bias in news articles in this day and age, as well as the struggle to find credible sources for school work.

What it does

The OtherSide, is essentially a Chrome extension that detects if a web page contains bias information, and rates it based on how biased it is.

How we built it

We first found a pre-trained masked language model on Hugging Face and then utilized it via API calls to detect if information on a webpage is biased or not, this was also done by uploading the program as a Google Chrome extension.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges finding a trustworthy pre-trained ai model, as well as integrating it into the software.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud of the fact that we successfully integrated a pre trained data model into a program, as well as creating a Google Chrome extension.

What we learned

We learned a lot about making API calls, as well as learning JavaScript and HTML from essentially scratch.

What's next for The OtherSide

We plan to further this project, by adding more functionalities, as well as smoothing out issues we encountered along the way. We also plan to make the interface more user friendly.

Built With

• css
• html
• huggingface
• javascript
• python
• vscode