Opinion by Tim Gordon: Why our AI future needs fact-checkers
Tim Gordon is a trustee for Full Fact, a fact-checking charity based in Britain, and the co-founder of Best Practice AI, an artificial intelligence strategy and governance advisory firm.
But they’re only as good as the material they have to work with. These platforms extrapolate from the huge corpus of text that has been uploaded to the internet over the past few decades. Given what humanity has actually been writing about in those years, this input data can trigger troubling output. This ranges from factually false statements to outright bias against minorities.
The content generated does not yet match the best human output. But speed, scale and low cost give the algorithms a huge advantage. AI-powered systems producing personalized content at the blink of an eye are well positioned to dominate the content distribution platforms — such as TikTok, Twitter, Google and Facebook — that increasingly mediate our media consumption choices. The bulk of future content on the internet will be produced by AI.
So what might be done? Tools such as ChatGPT need to find their place in the information hierarchy, ideally as a conversational front-end to high-quality information-retrieval systems, as the current alliance with Microsoft’s Bing search engine hopes to do.One idea is to identify reliably hygienic information sources whose provenance, process and editorial culture can be trusted and even audited.
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