This is still in its infancy but you have to start somewhere. I wonder how long it will take to get to a system that can scan a whole series of articles on a related subject and be able to discern information which is more trustworthy from that which is suspect. Maybe it's not possible.
The issue here is that it reaches right back to the core ideas around epistemology, and those, whether we are culturally mature enough to accept it or not, get murky.
This is probably the only possible answer to fake news. With human censors one can always cry “bias!” but a publicly published open source AI would be irrefutable.
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[ 40.5 ms ] story [ 1588 ms ] threadThe issue here is that it reaches right back to the core ideas around epistemology, and those, whether we are culturally mature enough to accept it or not, get murky.
> Maybe it's not possible.
Well said.
It's entirely possible that an AI could pick up on even subtle differences.
The less willing the classifier is to issue false-positive "fake" ratings, the more wiggle-room the news-fakers have to play.