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#156 Gordon Crovitz: Will AI SPREAD Misinformation & Fake News?

Nov 22, 2023
48:16
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Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal and co-founder of NewsGuard, discusses the impact of AI on spreading misinformation and fake news. He highlights the challenges posed by AI-enhanced misinformation websites and the importance of trust data in improving AI models. They also delve into the dangers of AI agents and the potential for training models to recognize false narratives. The conversation touches upon building databases, reliability scores, and the responsibility of social media platforms.
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Quick takeaways

  • Differentiation between reliable and unreliable news sources is a challenge for large language models, but Microsoft has integrated reliability ratings from NewsGuard into their services.
  • NewsGuard uses human-analyzed databases to counter misinformation, including a reliability ratings database and a misinformation fingerprint catalog.

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Importance of Distinguishing Reliable and Unreliable News Sources

One of the challenges for large language models is the lack of differentiation between generally reliable and generally unreliable news sources. This is because most models go by the number of tokens a site has, disregarding reliability ratings. Microsoft is an exception, as they have integrated reliability ratings from NewsGuard into their services.

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