Viretta Autor: Viretta

「 Disclaimer 」
None of this is "powered by AI". Its all hard-coded rules. Even the summary windows. The only psychosis here is from apathy and exhaustion.

「 Do you see 」(ㆆ _ ㆆ)
Nobody knows how to read anything online and nobody wants to keep a list of possible fallacies on their radar when they're just scrolling around.
You read a headline, dopamine spikes, and after the 20th blog post written in some basement, claiming to be from a peer-reviewed expert, some of the dissonance rubs off and pollutes your mind.

We built Viretta to act as filter to highlight when this happens. It strips away the emotions and clickbait so you can see what matters. Trash in, trash out right? Why not make sure your trash is at least better trash?

Install it. Optimize your input. Maybe. You probably shouldn't trust this extension with your life, use it as a first parse. At least until we get the funding to make this more robust. (lol me writing this like I'll be paid for it someday)

「 Features 」

「 Syntax Lens 」 Modern media likes to mix data and drama. If you see a Purple Line: This is being PHRASED as a Fact. Whoever wrote it thinks it actually happened. Not to be confused for real facts, those don't exist. Purple Dotted Line: This is a Guess. The writer is using words like "might," "could," or "believes." We're working hard on this one, syntax on the internet might as well be a dadaist artform.

It instantly distinguishes between a scientist saying "This virus is fatal" (Fact-ish) and an influencer saying "This virus might be fatal" (Up in the air, wasting my time-ish).

「 Citation Proximity 」 This measures the distance between your screen and any primary evidence. It could be hacked if everyone just linked to jstor.org, but wouldn't that be funny?

10.0: Source. You are looking at raw data or a scientific paper. Optimal, good job.
9.0: One click away. Acceptable.
2.0: Trust Me Bro. The author cited nothing. You might be reading fiction.
1.0: The Void. You are on a lonely island of speculation. Close the tab if you intend to use what you learn here for anything rigorous, like your opinion, if you care about it.

「 Fallacy Filter 」 Humans fight dirty. We built a thing to point out the illogical insults so you don't have to be "on" all the time. (Warning: insults backed by logic may pass this filter, thats on you)

「 Hype Filter 」Just because two things happen at the same time doesn't mean one caused the other. Ice cream sales do not cause shark attacks. At least thats what the sharks and hagen das want you to think right? Yellow Highlight: We highlight weasel words like "linked to" or "suggests."

「 Generalization 」 Flags when complex groups are treated as one "thing". In anthropology we call that "Othering". You know you're statistically less likely to give someone the benefit of the doubt if they are a different gender, religion, hair color, eye color, color color than you?

「 Bias Score 」 Based on Media Ownership and a curated Bias Rating. We check who funds the site you're using. If a hedge fund of sharks owns your local newspaper and they have a reason to not talk about the aforementioned hagen das and sharks collusion effort, you should get to know. (Don't call shark tank on us, please)

「 Data 」 We don't collect any of the data this extension asks for, honestly, we don't want to know. The extension needs to see the words you pull from the internet so it can read it and try to help you. That's it. Eventually we want to implement more options, maybe a optional LLM. We can't afford any of that right now, (we clearly couldn't afford a copywriter).

「 NON-ACQUISITION CHARTER 」 We operate under a strict Non-Acquisition Charter. If this text disappears, or if we announce a partnership with a major media conglomerate, assume the we have been compromised and so has the integrity of this extension.