We don’t create the news,
we find it.
Our AI doesn’t generate articles.
Everything you see on the app is pulled from real news sites.
This is done through RSS feeds—feeds of stories publishers choose to send out.
All articles and media outlets in our database are treated equally by the algorithm. No one gets special treatment.
We present news as is and let you decide what to believe.
What makes TIMIO different:
Torch
Torch is an AI model we’ve trained on human psychology, specifically the unconscious biases that effect us all.
It scans articles for loaded language, missing sources, logic issues, conflicts of interest, and more, summarizing its findings into a few bullet points.
Algorithm Free
Most platforms use preference algorithms.
These algorithms collect data on you to tailor newsfeeds to your personal beliefs.
We ditch the algorithm and give everyone the same result.
Pivot
With a single tap, Pivot searches thousands of news articles for alternate viewpoints.
Our AI reads the story you are looking at, and suggests you stories in our database with opposing viewpoints.
How we rank articles
Because we avoid traditional algorithmic sorting, rankings are relatively simple.
Articles are sourced via RSS; feeds America’s most popular publishers send out for apps like TIMIO to use.
Articles at the top are the most recent articles published with RSS, tagged with the category you’re viewing.
The only influence over what you see in our app is time of day and the frequency publishers post articles.
FAQs
AIs are trained on human data, which is filled with our own natural biases. While our AI could have slight biases when picking an article with a different view, TIMIO is far more objective than other platforms.
Other platforms use small groups of people to determine which news to show you, often with little information on how these decisions are being made.
In the near future, we will be listing our corporate by-laws and a complete list of all TIMIO’s investors. We are currently finishing some paperwork with new investors, we will have this information for you as soon as everything is finalized.
. Our AI run’s off of Anthropic’s constitutional AI, Claude. Claude foundations are built with documents like the U.N declaration of human rights and focuses on accuracy and ethics above all else.
Yes. technically TIMO does have an algorithm, like all code. At its basic level, an algorithm is just an automated way for code to complete tasks and sort content. TIMO’s ‘algorithm’ in this sense does nothing more than grab stories from popular news sites and display them. The articles that are picked come from the news publisher’s RSS feed, which is a live stream of articles the publisher has chosen to send out. We simply grab the news published by the most popular news sites and display it to you evenly.
When use an alternate perspective, the code sends the article information to OpenAI and asks GPT to find an article with a differing viewpoint. No funny business.
When we say “Algorithm” with a capital A, we are talking about preference and marketing algorithms. These algorithms analyze your data and use it to change your feed and search results. This is what’s behind the content that appears in your search results ‘For You’ pages, and ‘Recommendations.’
Follow our official social pages, @TimioNews, for instructions on joining EA and testing current builds.
TIMIO is currently available desktop as a Chrome Extension through our early-access program. The TIMIO Mobile App is planned to release this winter on IOS and Android.
Our AI tools are incredibly sophisticated, but they're aids for critical thinking, not arbiters of truth. That's why we designed them to highlight potential areas of concern rather than making absolute judgments.
You're always in control of forming your own conclusions.
We also focus the majority of our analysis on internal issues in articles (as opposed to fact-checking) to avoid hallucination. We plan on integrating official fact-checking from watchdog organizations in the near future.
FAQs
Isn’t AI biased?
AIs are trained on human data, which is filled with our own natural biases. Our AI is only used to find articles with differing views, not generate them. Therefore any bias in the articles is from its human author. While its possible our AI could have slight biases when picking an article with a different view, TIMIO is far more objective than other platforms.
Other platforms use small groups of people to determine which news to show you, often with little information on how these decisions are being made.
How can I trust you?
In the near future, we will be listing our corporate by-laws and a complete list of all TIMIO’s investors. We are currently finishing some paperwork with new investors, we will have this information for you as soon as everything is finalized.
The aggregation and ranking API we use is completely open-source, meaning you can open up the code yourself and see how it works. Our AI run’s off of Anthropic’s constitutional AI, Claude. Claude foundations are built with documents like the U.N declaration of human rights, and is widely known to be most ethical and accurate AI.
But you do have an algorithm, right?
Yes. technically TIMO does have an algorithm, like all code. At its basic level, an algorithm is just an automated way for code to complete tasks and sort content. TIMO’s ‘algorithm’ in this sense does nothing more than grab stories from popular news sites and display them. The articles that are picked come from the news publisher’s RSS feed, which is a live stream of articles the publisher has chosen to send out. We simply grab the news published by the most popular news sites and display it to you evenly.
When use an alternate perspective, the code sends the article information to OpenAI and asks GPT to find an article with a differing viewpoint. No funny business.
When we say “Algorithm” with a capital A, we are talking about preference and marketing algorithms. These algorithms analyze your data and use it to change your feed and search results. This is what’s behind the content that appears in your search results ‘For You’ pages, and ‘Recommendations.’
