Can AI solve India’s real fake-news problem?
Fake news continues to rear its ugly head. A majority of respondents to a recent Edelman survey, meanwhile, said that they couldn’t judge the veracity of media reports. given that fake news has been shown to spread faster than real news, it’s no surprise that almost seven in ten people are concerned it might be used as a “weapon.” Researchers at MIT have engineered a partial solution where in they describe an artificially intelligent (AI) system that can determine whether a source is accurate or politically prejudiced. . A [promising] way to fight ‘fake news’ is to focus on their source The AI system relies on broad contextual understanding of the mediums it evaluates. It’s built on a Support Vector Machine (SVM) — a supervised system commonly used for classification and regression analysis — that was trained to evaluate factuality and bias on a three-point (low, mixed, and high--- 65 percent accurate ) and seven-point scale (extreme-left, left, center-left, center, ce