Dorian DiaconueYou promises to change social media. But the alternatives already exist
stabby_cicadaAn AI-powered fact-checking system embedded directly into posts.
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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞The alternative is Facebook with lies that go unchecked completely. This is actually an area where AI is not bad.
just because it is a solution doesn’t mean its a good solution or even better than no solution
mimavoxIf i’s implemented the right way, it could be. AI can be used for good things even of the knee-jerk reaction of so many people online is to equate it with crap.
Recoiling upon smelling shit is also a kneejerk reaction
its always this same bullshit, “if we just implemented this correctly” where can an AI participate in fact-checking? It can’t be trusted because of hallucinations, so the solution would be to uh… manually review everything it does? just rely on third parties to do it? What ACTUAL USE does this shit have?
FreddyNOI doubt it, honestly. It’d likely catch a lot of misinfo, yes, but it would likely also classify any new findings that run counter to previous assumptions as misinfo. LLMs can’t keep up to date. And they still have the same issue that whoever trains them gets to decide what is and isn’t misinfo, which starts being a problem when it’s an ubiquitous social media site.
“Correcting” incorrect information with more incorrect information doesn’t improve the situation.
AI tools are inherently unreliable because of the randomness of their text generation.
And worse, Europe doesn’t build its own AIs. LLM fact checking would have to be done by Grok or Claude or some other product from big American tech. And there’s an obvious problem with a social media network trying to avoid American censorship and political bias but “fact checking” with a tool that has American censorship and political bias built into it.