Personal News Editor (Custom GPT)
When: since 2026 (ongoing)
Where: La Concorde NYC
Role: AI Maker
Being informed is not the same as being oriented
The I built this experiment out of frustration—not with the news itself, but with what “being informed” has come to mean.
Most days, information fails in two predictable ways.
The first is the headline flood: an endless stream of events, alerts, charts, and breaking banners. Everything happens. Nothing settles. You know more facts, but you don’t understand the shape of the moment any better than you did yesterday.
The second is the hot-take machine: strong feelings, weak receipts. Opinion travels faster than verification. Certainty outpaces evidence. Complexity gets flattened into performance.
Both failures feel different, but they share a consequence: they leave you stimulated but disoriented.
An Intelligent Take
What gets lost isn’t intelligence - it’s judgment.
We stop asking:
What actually changed?
Who now has leverage?
Which rules quietly shifted?
Who absorbs the cost?
Instead, we react. Then we move on. And the system keeps turning. it
“Everything happens. Nothing changes. And we’re told that’s what being informed looks like.”
Design Principles
Constraints Before Creativity
This project only works if it’s constrained.
Not aesthetically constrained, but ethically and structurally constrained. Every rule exists to prevent a known failure mode of modern media.
These were non-negotiable.
1. Governed sources
A fixed universe of publications I actually read, paired with “look-alike” sources for corroboration.
This prevents two things at once: echo chambers and drift. The bulletin can widen its lens without losing its center of gravity.
2. Primary documents first
When stakes are real—law, trade, regulation, markets—the bulletin has to touch the paperwork: orders, filings, bill text, official releases.
Interpretation comes second. Opinion comes last.
3. One story → one entry
Deduplicate the echo chamber. If ten outlets report the same event, it’s still one story.
Pick the best one to three links. Move on.
4. Confidence labels
Every item is marked CONFIRMED, REPORTED, or SPECULATION.
The internet collapses these distinctions, and then acts surprised by the consequences. This bulletin refuses to.
5. Ethical narration
I didn’t want neutrality theater. I didn’t want punditry. And I didn’t want a personality performing intelligence. What this needed was a fixed narrator, a discipline more than a character. I call it The Witness-Editor. It was given a set of values and directions:
No sneering from a safe remove.
No flattening human suffering into content.
No pretending power is abstract.
Incentives are legible. Power is real. Say so plainly.
