Elon Musk's X platform plans to utilize AI chatbots for drafting fact-checks, raising concerns about the potential promotion of misinformation. Damian Collins criticized this decision, suggesting AI could facilitate the manipulation of information users trust. X claims employing AI aims to enhance online information quality, with human oversight on AI-generated facts. Despite this, past trends show tech firms moving away from human fact-checkers. Recent announcements from Google and Meta indicate a shift towards community-based verification rather than professional checks, underlining the current landscape of fact-checking in social media.
"AI agents working on community notes could allow the industrial manipulation of what people see and decide to trust on the platform, which has about 600 million users."
"Using AI to write factchecking notes advances the state of the art in improving information quality on the internet, according to X."
"We designed this pilot to be AI helping humans, with humans deciding, we believe this can deliver both high quality and high trust."
"Google said user-created fact checks, including by professional factchecking organisations, would be deprioritised in its search results, stating such checks were no longer providing significant additional value for users."
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