Doctoral researcher Dorsaf Sallami examined AI fake news detection systems and found that they don’t actually fact check anything. They calculate probabilities based on their training data. Think of it less like a journalist verifying a story and more like a mirror reflecting whatever it is shown, including the same biases and blind spots. According to Dorsaf Sallami, a system that scores 95% accuracy in a lab setting can still fail in the real world, and that gap is a serious...
