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sounds_sound  ·  4533 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Automating bullshit detection.
"Schultz is careful to clarify: His software is not designed to determine lies from truth on its own."

Seems to me that that is exactly what his software is determined to do. The ultimate gotcha-question-insta-feedback-loop. I like this idea and am anxious to see how these kind of applications might progress in the future. I remember seeing one debate, in '08 I think, where every member of the audience had a device with a turn knob that would real-time feed their approval of the on going events minute by minute. The ticker at the bottom of the screen was able to sort that input into demographic fields i.e. age, party-line, sex etc. Now imagine running this truth telling machine through other kinds of detection software like body language and perspiration levels. Could be interesting. One thing I should say though that continually makes me a bit nervous is that these programs are always written by someone and of course can never be perfect. Our biases, whether we like it or not, have a way of seeping into the things that we build.





rk  ·  4533 days ago  ·  link  ·  
The reliance on PolitiFact's APIs provides a single point of failure. Then something like a collaborative fact checking platform would be nice. Something like Wikipedia but for fact checking.