Meta made a fact-checking AI to help verify Wikipedia citations
, acts as the system's knowledge index. As it goes about its job of checking the citations in an article, the model is designed to find a single source to verify every claim.
To illustrate the capabilities of the AI, Meta shared an example of an incomplete citation the model found on the Wikipedia page for the. Under the Notable Blackfoot people section, the article mentions Joe Hipp, the first Native American to compete for the WBA World Heavyweight title. The linked website doesn’t mention Hipp or boxing.
What’s notable about the above passage is that it doesn’t explicitly mention boxing. Meta’s model found a suitable reference thanks to its natural language capabilities. The tool could one day help with Facebook's misinformation problems. “More generally, we hope that our work can be used to assist fact-checking efforts and increase the general trustworthiness of information online,“ the model’s creators.
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