Welcoming AI! … and Turning it Into an Unprecedented Ally to Tackle Disinformation in Spanish and Other Languages
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Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence, Fact-checking, Democracy, Journalism, Deep fakes, Cheap fakesAbstract
Having worked in fact-checking and data journalism for over a decade, my team at Chequado has developed and experimented with civic technology and AI for more than seven years. It is becoming increasingly clear that generative AI can become a huge ally for editorial offices and organizations – both large and especially small – that need to produce content more cheaply, in different innovative formats, for diverse audiences, and become quicker in their reactions and responses to misinformation. We must start experimenting with AI now (or, even better, yesterday), especially in languages other than English, to prevent information gaps and inequality from growing further. In this paper, we share some of our experiences building out AI-enabled, pro-democracy tools to combat misinformation in Spanish.
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