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Fake news has already fanned the flames of distrust towards media, politics and established institutions around the world. And while new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) might make things even worse, it can also be used to combat misinformation.
A fake story might, for example, make the claim that a very high percentage of crimes in a European country are committed by foreign immigrants. In theory that might be an easy claim to disprove because of large troves of available open data, yet journalists waste valuable time in finding that data. So Fandango’s tool links all kinds of European open data sources together, and bundles and visualises it. Journalists can use, for example, pooled together national data to address claims about crimes or apply data from the European Copernicus satellites to climate change debates.
Essentially, previous studies show that fake news stories are shared online in different ways from real news stories, says Prof. Bronstein. Fake news might have far more shares than likes on Facebook, while regular posts tend to have more likes than they have shares. By spotting patterns like these, GoodNews attaches a credibility score to a news item.
The GoodNews team hopes to monetise this service through a start-up called Fabula AI, based in London. While they hope to roll out the product at the end of the year, they envisage having customers such as large media companies like Facebook and Twitter, but also individual users.
Can artificial intelligence help end fake news?
Do you think that AI is a solution to the fake news problem ??
(Score: 2) by RedIsNotGreen on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:29PM (1 child)
If everyone is already writing about what's going on in their world, which they are,
why not just put that together with Web of Trust, and have algorithmically verifiable news
on anything that you want to know about, with a trust chain you can navigate and verify yourself?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:41PM
Because when you have a critical mass of stupid people believing the same thing, the web of trust breaks down. With your idea, religion, 9/11 conspiracy theories and faked moon landings would become trustworthy information.
Having said that, it's no worse an idea than trusting the vetting of information to a handful of AIs controlled by a few psychopathic mega-corporations with an agenda in bed with the government...