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Know-It-All Robot Shuts Down Dubious Family Texts (wsj.com)
Biting your tongue at yet another questionable article shared in your message group? Add artificial-intelligence fact-checker Meiyu, she will jump in with 'False.' From a report: The artificial-intelligence bot will interject in real time when she detects posts about the news, pointing out factual errors and alternative interpretations. The technology, created by Taiwanese developers, is a step ahead of most fact-checking apps, including versions offered in Brazil and Indonesia, which don't jump into conversations. Other popular fact-checkers, such as Snopes in the U.S., are public databases that users consult for reviews of news items. Meiyu quickly became hot in Taiwan, which had just gone through divisive local elections and is rife with rumors of China's interference in social media. The bot now has more than 110,000 users on the Japanese messaging app Line, which covers about 90% of the mobile-messaging market in Taiwan.
Awesome, do it now. The criminal fraud Presidency needs corrected.
And this is of course the problem with bots like this. The "facts" will always conform to a particular political world view - that's just how humans work. Imagine your feed where a bot installed by a big Trump fan labeled stuff as "fake news" whenever it disagreed with Trump. And that's exactly how it works in China. It isn't some hypothetical situation here: government control of "fact checking" is the very heart of modern totalitarianism.
People have these naive ideas about "facts" being objective and bias free, and that's great, but fact-checkers never are. The farther down the rabbit hole a society goes, the more blatant this effect becomes.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Worse than that, some "facts" are impossible to establish.
We all now know that Jussie Smollett is a liar, but is Ilham Omar really an antisemite? That is, was her apology sincere?
We know that Trump publicly asked Russia to find Hillary's emails, but did he know if they had them, or was he sarcastically playing on the news of the day?
Most people's version of "truth" will depend on how they interpret vague things that are essentially unknowable.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Let's review: Lies about what Obama said due to bias. Convicts a false and mistaken phrasing due to bias. Pretends outrage when Trump is literally quoted and downplays lies.
Called on bias.
Posts link to video where Obama did not use the words quoted.
Yep, your bias has detached you from reality.
Or did you want Obama to pass a law to force your plan to remain in effect forever?