Chatbots: A ‘truth oracle’?
Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan said chatbots could become a default source for facts within a decade, though the shift is not inevitable.
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NewsGuard brings fact-checking chatbot to five European countries
NewsGuard AI draws from 12,000 vetted sources and shares revenue with publishers whose work it cites.
When seeing is no longer believing: How AI fakes complicate visual investigations
Journalists and open-source experts say AI manipulation, shrinking access to footage and rising costs are making visual verification harder.
AI tool Arbiter tracks emerging disinformation
Arbiter, an AI tool from nonprofit SimPPL, is being tested to track emerging disinformation narratives.
Publishers remove articles after AI-concerns emerge over four tech writers’ identities
Hacker Noon and Information Age removed articles after Press Gazette asked publishers to verify four prolific tech and finance contributors.
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AI chatbots beat search engines at spotting foreign propaganda, NPR test finds
NPR and NewsGuard posed 30 propaganda-based questions to six chatbots and four search engines, and the chatbots handled them better.
Reuters reviews hundreds of images a day. How does it verify them?
Reuters details how its visual verification team confirms user-shot photos and video, publishing roughly a dozen of hundreds reviewed each day.
Google’s Backstory aims to speed up image verification for fact-checkers
The experimental DeepMind tool combines provenance checks, reverse image searches and context tracing. India Today uses it as a first pass, then verifies the results manually.
Mirage’s $50,000 AI news channel runs 24/7 without journalists
Mirage's one-day AI News Network drew 50,000 viewers on X, cost about $50,000 and employed no journalists at any point.
Fake Forbes sites sold guaranteed coverage for $10,000, PR pitch shows
Forbes has confirmed two AI-generated sites are fake, after a PR agency offered Press Gazette guaranteed placement on one for $10,000.