Ask for a daring opinion and most people - and most AI models - reach for the same safe line. Before you say yours out loud, taste it.
Room TemperatureIs your hot take actually hot?
Type the "unpopular opinion" you plan to bring to dinner, the group chat or the office lunch. The label check is free. One run tastes it - lukewarm, too vague to taste, cheap heat or genuinely spicy - shows the mild version everyone already says and pours three sharper versions that are still on your side.
1 The take
2 The label check free
The page reads your words against short lists. These are hints, not the verdict.
- Hedges
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- Sweeping words
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- Names people
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- Insult words
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- Sounds familiar
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- A reason
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The page's guess: -
3 The bottle
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The liquid rises with the heat, from 0 to 5 peppers. Before a run the tag shows the page's guess; after one it shows the verdict.
4 Taste it
One run asks three questions of your take: does it insult people rather than argue with an idea, is it too vague to disagree with, and would most people already nod along? The first yes decides it, in that order - cheap heat, too vague to taste, lukewarm; three noes make it genuinely spicy.
You also get a heat level, the mild version everyone already says, a STAND check (stake it, target the idea, argue it, nod to the other side, declare it), three sharper versions on your own side, the strongest objection, anything to fact-check first and a question to open it up.
5 Saved takes
How the free side works
The label check matches your words against short lists: hedges (I think, maybe, kind of, honestly), sweeping words (everyone, nobody, always, never), people named (people who, anyone who, and groups such as parents or drivers), insult words (lazy, rude, idiot), a handful of familiar takes (fitting in over truth, screens ruining us, meetings that could be emails, things were better before) and signs of a reason (because, for example, I have seen). Its guess follows the same order as the run's rule. It never decides for you.
The run gets these notes and your answers, and the page checks every reply against them: the verdict follows its own three checks, the heat sits inside the verdict's range, the STAND check has its five steps in order, the three sharper versions are heat 2, 3 and 4, word limits hold, and nothing is added that you did not say - no statistics, studies or numbers, no names, no insults and no talk of posting it online.
Saying it out loud: a good take argues with an idea, not with the people in the room. If the table goes cold, ask the opening question and listen.