Artificial intelligence Vs. Fake news
A news summary from the Cotejo.info site arrived by mail and I found the topic interesting, so I decided to translate it, since the original post is in Spanish, to share some fragments that particularly caught my attention.
On this occasion we will indicate some creations based on artificial intelligence that analyze content that could be fake news, mainly bots developed in mobile applications such as WhatsApp, Twitter or Telegram.
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With the rise of hoaxes, the creation of bots has also increased to help people detect them, as well as there are bots designed to viralize falsified content.(...)
- Poynter Chatbot: The International Fact-checking Network (IFCN), created by the Poynter Institute, created a bot that works through WhatsApp (hence its name “chatbot”). Once the chat is open, you must write "Hello" to start the interaction in Spanish. The first message sent by this chatbot contains the instructions to know how it works, which are very simple. Among other things, it offers checks for suspicious content, sending the most recent verifications made by this bot, tips to fight misinformation, among others. To add it to WhatsApp directly click here or add this number to the mobile phone's contact book: +1 (727) 291-2606. It is available in four languages.
- Robinho: if you use the Telegram mobile application, you can add the bot created by the Fake News Detector organization, called Robinho. This bot is constantly learning from the information given by its developers. It is still in the initial phase and it may not be able to detect all the content that it is asked to verify, but some can already be classified by the characteristics of its text such as fake news, clickbait, among others. It is available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. To add it directly to Telegram, click here.
- WHO Chatbot: The World Health Organization (WHO) has an exclusive WhatsApp chatbot to provide real and up-to-date information about the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Currently this bot is available in 15 languages and offers updated figures on COVID-19 cases in the world, how to protect yourself properly, frequently asked questions, rumors, verified news, among other services. To directly add this chat in Spanish to WhatsApp, click here. You can also add this phone number to your phone book: +41 22 501 76 90.
The original post also addressed a twitter account, specialized in explaining the reasons why a particular term or phrase became a trend, thus giving indications of the reasons and could be used to study the reliability of the discussions.
Although I am very attracted to technology topics, artificial intelligence applications and information analysis, I have never used these kinds of tools for professional or academic research, the times I have used them have been out of personal curiosity, but I find them quite Potential usefulness for professionals in the area of communication, as well as they can be useful for those who need to maintain good quality information to make decisions.
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The same thing happens to me, sometimes the temptation dominates me to click on the shocking title of some news, however, I stopped doing it because generally when opening these sites and translating the paragraphs, my laptop ended up full of viruses, and in most of the cases were fake news, now I'm not paying even the slightest attention to them. Kind regards @pedrobrito2004.
Certainly, the post does not address the problem of contamination and the spread of computer viruses and malicious code associated with these fake news, but it is something that would be well worth studying as well.
As for the topic of choosing shocking titles for these fake news, I have to admit that it is an intelligent strategy that draws on human curiosity and always awakens a certain desire to know.
With the current situation of hyper-connectivity, we also run the risk of an over-information, to the point of being intoxicating, hence it is sometimes called info-toxication
Hello @pedrobrito2004
There are many such bots but I have not used them either, although I think they can be very useful.
If I have used through telegram, bot to translate the voice into letters, also to practice English. But there are a huge amount of options from them.
I think there are bots with quite a few utilities for different apps, so I'm glad to know that there are some bots specialized in cleaning up info-toxication and they help to distinguish between entirely false news and other news that have some plausibility, even when they may be shocking or amazing
Good article, sensational news is a problem from the printing press and further back so I doubt that one day they will control it.
Certainly I doubt that it can be fully controlled, but I do believe that it can be controlled to some extent. That fits the idea that I cannot make all bad things disappear, but I can try to lessen their presence in the reality that we have.