[Research] Fake News

[daviddao]

Fake News Discussion

Fake news is horrible - and defending against it is difficult. This thread hopes to raise awareness of what fake news currently is and what it can become with the dawn of AI (aka fake news 2.0)

I'm interested, what we, as engineers, coders, and citizens can do against it? Looking forward to your opinions and discussions!

Resources

Some resources I found helpful:

• Calling B.S. course
• Fake News Challenge

Models

Fact-checking

• Input: sentence. Output: “Claim” or “Not Claim” Full Fact is an organization building automatic fact-checking tools for the benefit of the public. Part of their pipeline is a classifier that reads news articles and detects claims (classifies text as either “claim” or “not claim”) which can later be fact-checked (by humans now, by with ML later, hopefully). Video: Sentence embeddings for automated factchecking - Lev Konstantinovskiy

[edwardabraham]

A Twitter thread about the YouTube algorithms promoting such gems as Flat Earth theory ... https://twitter.com/gchaslot/status/1064527592428986368?s=19

[KOLANICH]

Fake news is horrible - and defending against it is difficult.

Fake news are horrible, but people must learn to detect them using their natural intelligence, not AI. False positive here is much worse than false negative.