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TechCrunch
4 days ago
- Business
- TechCrunch
X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes
The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part of this fact-checking program can contribute comments that add context to certain posts, which are then checked by other users before they appear attached to a post. A Community Note may appear, for example, on a post of an AI-generated video that is not clear about its synthetic origins, or as an addendum to a misleading post from a politician. Notes become public when they achieve consensus between groups that have historically disagreed on past ratings. Community Notes have been successful enough on X to inspire Meta, TikTok, and YouTube to pursue similar initiatives — Meta eliminated its third-party fact-checking programs altogether in exchange for this low-cost, community-sourced labor. But it remains to be seen if the use of AI chatbots as fact-checkers will prove helpful or harmful. These AI notes can be generated using X's Grok or by using other AI tools and connecting them to X via an API. Any note that an AI submits will be treated the same as a note submitted by a person, which means that it will go through the same vetting process to encourage accuracy. The use of AI in fact-checking seems dubious, given how common it is for AIs to hallucinate, or make up context that is not based in reality. According to a paper published this week by researchers working on X Community Notes, it is recommended that humans and LLMs work in tandem. Human feedback can enhance AI note generation through reinforcement learning, with human note raters remaining as a final check before notes are published. 'The goal is not to create an AI assistant that tells users what to think, but to build an ecosystem that empowers humans to think more critically and understand the world better,' the paper says. 'LLMs and humans can work together in a virtuous loop.' Even with human checks, there is still a risk to relying too heavily on AI, especially since users will be able to embed LLMs from third parties. OpenAI's ChatGPT, for example, recently experienced issues with a model being overly sycophantic. If an LLM prioritizes 'helpfulness' over accurately completing a fact-check, then the AI-generated comments may end up being flat out inaccurate. There's also concern that human raters will be overloaded by the amount of AI-generated comments, lowering their motivation to adequately complete this volunteer work. Users shouldn't expect to see AI-generated Community Notes yet — X plans to test these AI contributions for a few weeks before rolling them out more broadly if they're successful.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Musk says X Community Notes increasingly ‘gamed by governments & legacy media'
Elon Musk on Thursday said he is going to 'fix' his social media platform's X Community Notes feature, claiming without evidence the feature is being 'gamed' by governments and legacy media.' 'Unfortunately, @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media,' Musk wrote on X. 'Working to fix this …' The tech billionaire's remarks were included in a repost of a circulating poll from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) finding 57 percent of Ukrainians trust President Zelensky. The poll was referenced in a CNN fact check of President Trump, who claimed Wednesday that Zelensky has a 4 percent approval rating. Musk reposted a user claiming KIIS was funded by the United States Agency for International Development — the agency that Trump's Department of Government Efficiency panel is trying to eliminate. The user also claimed KIIS is run by a 'VERY patriotic Ukrainian named Anton Hrushetskyi,' and suggested the polling is likely not credible. Musk echoed this sentiment, writing, 'It should be utterly obvious that a Zelensky-controlled poll about his OWN approval is not credible!!' 'If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election. He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he canceled the election,' he wrote. 'In reality, he is despised by the people of Ukraine, which is why he has refused to hold an election. I challenge Zelensky to hold an election and refute this. He will not.' Trump has ramped up his criticism of Zelensky in recent days and on Wednesday accused the Ukrainian president of taking advantage of the United States. Trump said Zelensky has done a 'terrible job' at leading Ukraine and claimed he 'refuses' to have elections. Ukraine postponed its 2024 presidential elections because of martial law being in place amid the Russian invasion. The Community Notes feature on X allows users to submit fact checks to potentially misleading or false posts. The feature was rolled out by Musk after he bought the social media platform, then known as Twitter, in 2021 and overhauled many of the safety and content moderation policies previously in place. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is also planning to roll out a community notes feature to replace its since-eliminated fact-checking system, which it said was 'seen, by many, as biased.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
20-02-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Musk says X Community Notes increasingly ‘gamed by governments & legacy media'
Elon Musk on Thursday said he going to 'fix' his social media platform's X Community Notes feature, claiming without evidence that the feature is being 'gamed' by governments and legacy media.' 'Unfortunately, @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media,' Musk wrote on X Thursday. 'Working to fix this …' The tech billionaire's remarks were included in a repost of a circulating poll from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) finding 57 percent of Ukrainians trust President Zelensky. The poll was referenced in a CNN fact check of President Trump, who claimed on Wednesday that Zelensky has just a 4 percent approval rating. Musk reposted a user claiming KIIS was funded by the United States Agency for International Development — the agency that Trump's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) panel is trying to eliminate. The user also claimed KIIS is run by a 'VERY patriotic Ukranian named Anton Hrushetskyi,' and suggested the polling is likely not credible. Musk echoed this sentiment, writing, 'It should be utterly obvious that a Zelensky-controlled poll about his OWN approval is not credible!!' 'If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election. He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he canceled the election,' he wrote. 'In reality, he is despised by the people of Ukraine, which is why he has refused to hold an election. I challenge Zelensky to hold an election and refute this. He will not.' Trump has ramped up his criticism of Zelensky in recent days and on Wednesday accused the Ukranian president of taking advantage of the United States. Trump said Zelensky has done a 'terrible job' at leading Ukraine and claimed he 'refuses' to have elections. Ukraine postponed its 2024 presidential elections because of martial law being in place amid the Russian invasion. The 'Community Notes' feature on X allows users to submit their own fact-checks to potentially misleading or false posts. The feature was rolled out by Musk after he bought the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter in 2021, and overhauled many of the safety and content moderation policies previously in place. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is also planning to roll out a community notes feature to replace its since-eliminated fact-checking system, which it said was 'seen, by many, as biased.'
