Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes
Elon Musk’s X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out “community notes,” which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or not.
But now, the platform plans to allow AI to write community notes, and that could potentially ruin whatever trust X users had in the fact-checking system—which X has fully acknowledged.
In a research paper, X described the initiative as an “upgrade” while explaining everything that could possibly go wrong with AI-written community notes.
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