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Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, headquartered in San Francisco, has integrated AI chatbots into its Community Notes program. The integration, initiated as a pilot project on July 1, aims to increase the volume and reach of community notes, while ensuring the program's existing mechanisms for mitigating inaccuracies and minimising the spread of misinformation remain in place.
The AI-generated notes initiative is a response to declining participation in the community notes program. Submissions have decreased by more than 50% since January, as reported by NBC. The goal is to expand the platform's reach and adaptability in addressing the evolving challenges of content moderation on a global scale through hybrid human-AI solutions.
The AI assists by generating draft community notes and translating them to improve understanding across languages. However, human validation remains essential in the process to ensure accuracy and reliability. Humans review, edit, and vote on these notes, ensuring the final fact-checking information is accurate and contextually appropriate. Updates to the system help safeguard the integrity of community moderation against manipulation.
The human-in-the-loop approach helps preserve trust in the community notes program as technology plays a larger role. Every note, whether generated by AI or humans, must be rated as "helpful" by users with historically differing perspectives before it is displayed to the wider audience. X retains a human validation process for community notes, requiring every note to be vetted through the platform's established system.
The research paper published by X's community notes leaders, in collaboration with academics from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Washington, advocates for an "open ecosystem" for note generation. Developers can build their own AI-powered note writers and connect them through X's public API.
Notes attached to posts through the Community Notes program have shown significant impact. Posts flagged with community notes are approximately 60% less likely to be reshared and 80% more likely to be deleted by the original poster. This indicates the effectiveness of the program in combating misinformation and fostering a more informed community.
In the future, the leadership at X anticipates that real-time ratings and reactions from users will help train and refine AI systems, further enhancing the program's ability to combat misinformation and promote accurate, informative content. The integration of AI into the Community Notes program is part of a series of recent moderation changes, including a feature that labels posts liked by users with differing viewpoints.
The ultimate decision-making authority remains with human raters, as suggested by the research paper. This ensures that the community-driven ethos of verification remains intact, while leveraging AI to increase efficiency and accessibility in the fact-checking workflow on Twitter (now X).
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