{"id":4082,"date":"2021-09-07T06:07:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:42:37","slug":"artificial-intelligence-ai-the-fake-news-infodemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/09\/07\/artificial-intelligence-ai-the-fake-news-infodemic\/","title":{"rendered":"186: Artificial Intelligence (AI) & the Fake News INFODEMIC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet users are inundated with info every single day. Each minute, there are approximately 98,000 tweets, 160 million emails sent, and 600 videos uploaded to YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n

To make critical decisions in life, one requires facts. People crave a way to sort through all the information to find valuable content, they can use.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Fake News \u201cInfodemic\u201d<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Since anyone has the ability to publish information on the internet, false \/ fake news can be generated very easily and it travels fast and can have dire consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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World desperately needs a way to discern truth from fiction in our news and public, political and economic discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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World\u2019s largest social media networks (companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and others) have come under fire for the part they play in spreading fake news.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Artificial intelligence (AI)<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence is spearheading the way towards eliminating fake and toxic news.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Technology and the Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are now on the job to combat the spread of misinformation on the internet and social platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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AI algorithms use natural language processing to understand and analyse text.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The AI models label the credibility of the source of the content with a rating of low, medium, high, and an article as reliable or unreliable based on comparisons of similar content from more than 100,000 sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The algorithms are checking not only content, but metadata and images too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The algorithms also check the toxicity of content and can block out profane and obscene content.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Man Machine Interface<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

While AI is able to analyse the \u00a0\u00a0enormous amounts of info generated daily on a scale that is impossible for humans, ultimately, humans need to be part of the process of fact-checking to ensure credibility.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Any solution for the purpose of verifying the veracity of news, images, and social discussions will have to to combine artificial intelligence and human intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Machines are adept at quickly analysing volumes of content. They can flag questionable items for review by a human fact-checker as well as become smarter over time with feedback from results.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Future Trajectory<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

AI-based fact checkers can be useful but they still are not fool proof.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the pursuit of fighting fake news becomes more sophisticated, technology leaders will continue to work to find even better ways to sort out fact from fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Deep learning can help automate and further refine the AI Tools that help in fake news and disinformation detection. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Bottom Line<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

It is still a Spy versus Spy game<\/span><\/p>\n

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Question<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Will this problem be ever solved?<\/span><\/p>\n

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