“While a number of prominent fact-checking organisations, like FullFact in the UK and Maldita and Newtral in Spain, have already been implementing AI tools to facilitate their work, outlets from other countries have been much more cautious”
Gretel Kahn
Matching pictures to places is one example of how AI tools are helping combat misinformation, reports the Reuter’s Institute. Tbey examined current practices and shortcomings of how the technology can assist fact-checkers by talking with practitioners in Norway, Georgia, and Ghana.
Generative AI is already helping fact-checkers. But it’s proving less useful in small languages and outside the West | REUTER’S INSTITUTE | April 29, 2024 | by Gretel Kahn