[bigmit37]

I am new to this space but after reading about your goals for this AI, does this mean that most news sites are just copying facts off one other?

Secondly how does fact checking work in cases like this with AI? I would imagine fact checking would get progressively more difficult as more articles become AI generated.

My biggest fear is, we will have one AI generating a fake story and and acting as the root node, then other AIs creating news off those this node and we will have fake stories spread in various forms like branches creating misinformation.

[pjc50]

> does this mean that most news sites are just copying facts off one other?

This is how AP/Reuters/"newswire" content works. Since very few organisations can afford to have people everywhere, there's a sort of syndication model going on where the people that are in the right place for breaking news can sell it to a broker, who writes it up and then it appears across the rest of the media.

Press releases are even more of a thing. An organisation which wants to get in to the news will make a press release, which is basically a kit of quotes and "facts" that can be loosely re-written into an article.

It's also important to understand how limited journalistic "fact checking" really is. They're not detectives, nor scientists, and don't have the time to be either. Most of the time it consists simply of ringing someone being talked about, asking them "is this true", and printing the result.

[bigbird-media]

1. I'm no journalist, but I'm fairly sure there's some news sites that break the news first and then others follow (either through primary or secondary sources)

2. I haven't implemented fact-checking algos. At the moment I'm not planning to use AI for it, just simple cross referencing (not finalized).

3. When we do start momentum, we'll get on board a highly specialized ethics team and safety team. We're not a state actor or influenced by anyone so we're just creating gimmick-y articles on the internet for now. We'll eventually combat those issues if and when similar services pop up.

One reason we want to be first is that we know state actors are going to pop up soon. Singapore, Russia, Philippines, the list goes on for which they want something like us to control propaganda. We're hoping we'll be able to gain enough momentum before they start (or get further along than they already are at) to set a good solid standard. But with all things, this will take time and deliberation.

[gdubs]

At risk of sounding rude, “we’ll get to the ethics” later doesn’t sound reassuring.