Artificial Intelligence and Fake News

David Cox of NBC News recently published a story which claimed that artificial intelligence will be vital in efforts to stem the influx of misinformation on social media platforms. Cox writes that the company, “AdVerif.ai launched an AI-based algorithm that the company claims can identify fraudulent stories with an accuracy approaching 90 percent.” The criteria the algorithm uses for determining which stories are fake and which are real is also quite interesting. Cox states that this criteria includes “heavy use of adverbs and adjectives as well as slang, simple sentence structures, and relatively few commas and quotations.” Cox states that the difficulty in this process is determining the truth of “stories that include opinions and other statements that defy easy assessment.” [1 image, 1 link, 2 quotations, 121 words]