August 5, 2026 Dispatches from the Argument Factory data-and-classificationautomationlocal-firstmedia-and-productionProject: rsrag 5 min read This project began as a joke about making Sam Altman and Dario Amodei fight as badly coordinated robot boxers, but it quickly turned into something much more serious: an experiment in open models, local AI, comparative retrieval, and evidence-grounded argumentation. Frustration with expensive, opaque cloud tools pushed the work back toward inspectable local systems, while the original boxing gag evolved into a platform that can build curated intellectual corpora, uncover hidden disagreements inside a user’s question, and measure how much the written record actually supports the fight. The project was built across several AI collaborators, each seeing a different part of the work, so the article ends by letting those models tell the story from their own corners.
