Twitter Adds Image Fact-Checking & Community Notes In Wake Of AI Generators
Twitter’s Community Notes, earlier used to crowdsource fact-checking on information in tweets, will now include media as well. This is to mitigate the rise of artificial intelligence-generated images from tricking people online.
Last year, Community Notes was introduced to enable users to verify tweets and provide additional context or corrections if necessary. Amendments will be seen in retweets, quote tweets, and embeds. These will now be available for images, with corrections or notices following the picture when people retweet it as a label that reads: “Readers added context to this image.”
From AI-generated images to manipulated videos, it’s common to come across misleading media. Today we’re piloting a feature that puts a superpower into contributors’ hands: Notes on Media
— Community Notes (@CommunityNotes) May 30, 2023
Notes attached to an image will automatically appear on recent & future matching images. pic.twitter.com/89mxYU2Kir
Those who wish to be able to contribute to Community Notes will have to apply to the program. If selected, they will first be able to rate existing Notes. Once they have racked up a high enough Rating Score, they can write up their own Notes for posts. This will also go towards a separate Writing Impact Score, and once this reaches 10, they can begin to do the same for images.
Unsurprisingly, this comes after pictures of the Balenciaga Pope and an attack on the Pentagon made their rounds on the internet, rendering people confused as to whether such events took place due to how photorealistic art generators are now getting.
Raters and readers will see notes that authors marked as “about the image” slightly differently, so it’s clear to everyone that they should be interpreted as about the media, not the specific Tweet. Ratings can help identify cases where a note may not apply to a specific Tweet. pic.twitter.com/EDkSfRfxHv
— Community Notes (@CommunityNotes) May 30, 2023
Community Notes have become increasingly important on Twitter since Elon Musk became active on the platform. Musk had reduced the number of staff working on safeguarding users against hate speech, and the platform now relies on Community Notes to ensure the spread of reliable information.
Right now, the feature will only work for posts with single images and gifs, and Twitter hopes to bring it to multimedia tweets in the future.
[via TechCrunch and Mashable, ID 273198265 © Rokas Tenys | Dreamstime.com]
