Turning fake news against itself: AI tool can detect disinformation with 92% accuracy What's New in Publishing Digital Publishing News

Fake news is already a massive problem worldwide and with continuing improvements in content generation tools powered by artificial intelligence we are not far from the era of neural fake news i.e., fake news generated by AI. That would make it an even more formidable challenge for publishers. Currently, bots are being used to spread fake news, advanced AI models that are capable of consistently generating convincing pieces of disinformation are not yet available. Researchers are already working to counter such a scenario. An artificial intelligence model developed by researchers from the University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI (AI2) can spot fake news with 92% accuracy, per the team that developed the model. This is a substantial improvement compared to other similar detectors, the best of which have an accuracy rate of 73%.