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What are your thoughts on a on-device model that "fact-checks/determines bias" on comments and posts? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/general@lemmy.world
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Have had a few pet projects in the past around RSS aggregation/news reading, which could fact-check the sources/article while reading, also determining the biases from the grammar and linguistic patterns used by the journalist for the article. Same could be applied to comments.

Wonder if such a feature had value for a reader app for Lemmy? I feel a definitive score is toxic. But, if it were to simply display the variables to look out for it can help make a objective decision yourself?

Another application of this, is also pulling just the objective statements in the articles for faster reading.

Edit: More explained in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/1524807

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

A nifty thing, but it's not really addressing the actual problem. The problem with disinformation isn't that it merely exists, rather that it's shoved at such a volume by groups/people who build pseudo-credibility.

Rather than targeting individual instances of disinformation, sources should be dealt with. I think it'd be far easier and more efficient if disseminators were identified and popped a warning.

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