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Twitter introduces community notes for videos to combat AI-generated fake news

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Twitter introduces community notes for videos to combat AI-generated fake news

Twitter, now known as X, has been adding features to its social notes since introducing them for the first time last year. It has also added annotation features for images and videos, allowing users to add context to them so that other users unfamiliar with the content can neutrally and impartially receive complete information. This is expected to effectively curb the increasingly serious issue of AI-generated fake news.

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Social Notes Block False News Spread

Twitter introduced a new feature called Community Notes for videos yesterday, allowing users to add notes to specific videos to help others easily distinguish the authenticity and source of the video when shared or reposted.

This move aims to combat the rampant spread of fake news, forged images, and videos on the social platform.

Since its launch last year, the Community Notes feature on Twitter has been widely adopted globally. Initially focusing on textual annotations, it expanded to include image annotations in May and now includes annotations for videos.

Furthermore, any notes added to images or videos will automatically appear on other tweets that reference the same content, enhancing the fight against misinformation.

The tweet explains:

Contributors who are verified and have an influence score of 10 or above can add notes about the content in the tweet options, which will be displayed on all tweets containing that video.

Over time, Twitter has also tailored individual Community Notes accounts for different languages, such as French and German, to help readers fact-check more effectively.

AI Development Challenges Readers' Media Literacy

The rapid advancement of AI technology poses a serious threat to today's internet-savvy society, especially in social media filled with automated bots and malicious links, testing users' fact-checking and judgment abilities.

In May of this year, an image depicting an attack on the Pentagon in the US with explosions and smoke circulated widely and was even reported by news media worldwide. It was later confirmed that the image was generated by AI and was not real, prompting the introduction of image notes support by Community Notes at that time.

Additionally, some AI-generated advertisements in May, including fabricated text and image content claiming the death of certain celebrities, attracted attention. These ads also included unidentified links but did not directly cause personal or financial harm.

These ads mostly originate from accounts that have been inactive for over five to six years and are promoted through paid means, with their actual purpose remaining unknown.

A few days ago, a leaked adult video involving Nina Agdal, the partner of American influencer and wrestler Logan Paul, surfaced. Twitter users used their Community Notes to verify this and added notes with a link redirecting to the adult video, confirming that the person in the video was not Nina Agdal.