Office Hours: Can AI Help End Fake News? Advice to a Future Mother, & Being Rich and Anonymous
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Remember when you were so brand conscious you queued for hours to get the latest pair of trainers |
| 0:06.0 | in the cold and wet? Why waste time and money when you can get branded fashion, |
| 0:11.3 | sports and footwear online at M&M Direct? We've got all the big brands at low prices |
| 0:16.6 | and always up to 75% off RRP. What's more M&M don't do discount codes, flash sales or ask |
| 0:23.2 | for your mother's maiden name before you get a great deal? What's not to like? M&M Direct, |
| 0:28.5 | top the banner and show up now. |
| 0:38.4 | Welcome to the Profty Pods office hours. This is the part of the show where we answer your |
| 0:42.0 | questions about business, big tech, entrepreneurship and whatever else is on your mind. If you'd like |
| 0:46.0 | to submit a question, please email a voice recording to officehours at proftymedia.com. Again, |
| 0:51.6 | that's officehours at proftymedia.com. First question. |
| 0:55.1 | Profty Dog, this is Paul from Chicago, Illinois. Here's a thought. Could chat GBT |
| 1:01.0 | save us from social media and political rhetoric that's become unencumbered by facts? |
| 1:07.4 | It doesn't seem like a technical stretch to deploy chat GBT is a real-time fact checker of |
| 1:14.0 | sorts of every tweet or social media post. Perhaps instead of a blue check, Elon's engineers could |
| 1:20.8 | work on a Pinocchio icon whose nose length correlates with an AI test of the accuracy of each tweet. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm curious whether you think this is a practical application of AI or a polyanage |
| 1:33.3 | by-prem. Cheers. Paul from Chicago, thanks so much for the thoughtful question. So just a few |
| 1:38.8 | stats. Fact checking organizations are building their own AI driven tools to help deal with the |
| 1:42.8 | proliferation of online misinformation. According to a 2020 statistics survey, 80% of US adults have |
| 1:49.2 | consumed fake news and 38% have accidentally shared it. In 2020, neutral, the biggest fact checking |
| 1:55.8 | team in the EU and its neutral spelled N-E-W-T-R-A-L developed its multilingual AI language model |
| 2:02.4 | claim hunter. So serious fact checking using AI. Developers use 10,000 statements to train the |
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