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Commentary: Can AI Save the World From Fake News?
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Posted on 07/12/2023 5:29:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Automated real-time fact-checking is the future, but current AI still has a long way to go towards achieving it, say Joel Skadiang and Jaga Naidu from independent fact-checking platform Black Dot Research.

In an era of rapidly advancing technology, large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools capable of generating human-like text and transforming various industries.

LLMs, a form of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, are computerised language models that have been pre-trained on large textual datasets. With these large databases at their disposal, these language models are capable of generating detailed text based on simple user prompts, capturing much of the syntax and semantics of human language.

Although only in their infancy a few years ago, LLMs have progressed by leaps and bounds to become almost omnipresent in present times. Recent developments have created much excitement about the apparently limitless potential of LLMs and generative AI, thanks to user-friendly versions such as ChatGPT that have become exceedingly accessible to the general public.

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1 posted on 07/12/2023 5:29:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

No. Because depending on your ideological bent, the definition of what news is “fake” isn’t uniform.


2 posted on 07/12/2023 5:31:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway
Ask the lawyer who depended on "AI" to do a bit of research for him.
3 posted on 07/12/2023 5:31:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: nickcarraway

It depends on what your definition of “is” is.


4 posted on 07/12/2023 5:34:16 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The Supreme Court just ruled that Family Restaurant doesn't have to serve orphans.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

That guy was an idiot. He asked ChatGPT made up the citations, so he knew it might make them up. But when it denied making it up, he didn’t check their work. If he even checked one of the ten citations, he would have found out. That’s just lazy. I would have checked them even if another lawyer or paralegal had done it.


5 posted on 07/12/2023 5:38:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

AI IS fake news,,,its in the name...artificial.


6 posted on 07/12/2023 5:40:32 PM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: nickcarraway

More like AI will keep the world awash in fake news.


7 posted on 07/12/2023 5:42:33 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus (Jesus, Rex Universalis)
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To: nickcarraway
You check humans because you expect humans to be lazy and make mistakes. But you check their work against stuff done by other humans because while in the singular we may be lazy and make mistakes in the aggregate we tend to be pretty spot on.

With "AI" and all your stuff being online and under the control of the "AI" what do you have to check it against?

It is why I read and keep books. The internet has a lot of nonsense on it. And the internet is where the "AI" will be doing it's "fact checking".

8 posted on 07/12/2023 5:45:12 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: nickcarraway

AI will be used to BLANKET the world with fake news.


9 posted on 07/12/2023 5:45:15 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: nickcarraway

Fake News asks I’d AI can save the world from, “fake news.”


10 posted on 07/12/2023 5:52:59 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: nickcarraway

I suspect that AI will be the primary source of misinformation. Maybe humans will be forced to migrate back to actual journalism, just to make ends meet.


11 posted on 07/12/2023 5:54:03 PM PDT by GingisK
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Not as long as libtards are programming the AI

Libtardism is Fake News


12 posted on 07/12/2023 6:52:23 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: nickcarraway

AI: You know, climate has fluctuated wildly for millenia.

(Tightens a screw here and there)

AI: Come to think of it, the world is getting hotter than ever lately.


13 posted on 07/12/2023 7:00:46 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

As if we could trust ‘ Asia news’, the CCP and their running dog AI.

Pfft


14 posted on 07/12/2023 7:08:17 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: nickcarraway

Artificial intelligence is a very sophisticated computer program, but like every other program devised to make order out of chaos, it is still a matter of “Garbage in, garbage out”.

The program may be very good at deductive reasoning, but INDUCTIVE reasoning is an entirely different order of data management. Given an assortment of data that is presumed to have some relevance to the problem at hand, the program still would not have the basis of comparison to access the veracity or reliability of any and all pieces of data presented. Someone else feeding the data would have to make that judgment, and selectively discard or introduce these data points based on intuition, using no real reasoning that can be argued logically.

AI may be able to complete the task of assessing any large quantity of data quickly, but it is following its own internal logic, and there is no check or balance yet devised that can prevent impaired or incomplete data that appears plausible from taking that string of logic off to a wholly erroneous conclusion.


15 posted on 07/12/2023 7:22:40 PM PDT by alloysteel (Take back the rainbow. Its use by LGBTQ is cultural misappropriation.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

“More like AI will keep the world awash in fake news.”

It will be The Hill without the four idiot authors.


16 posted on 07/12/2023 8:05:13 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

SPOT ON!


17 posted on 07/12/2023 8:15:36 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Agreed. I don’t trust it at all because I absolutely don’t trust the programmers.


18 posted on 07/12/2023 10:50:20 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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