Elon Musk's X Amplifies Fact-Checking With Community Notes To Take On Edited and AI-Generated Videos

Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) announced the expansion of crowdsourced fact-checking tool Community Notes to videos as it looks to combat misinformation via edited clips and AI-generated videos.

What Happened: Community Notes is now available for videos, nearly ten months after the Musk-owned social media platform launched the tool for images.

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"Notes written on videos will automatically show on other posts containing matching videos. A highly-scalable way of adding context to edited clips, AI-generated videos, and more," said X's Community Notes.

This comes a week after X announced that the Community Notes feature will now be applicable on matching images as well – simply put, if an image post has been flagged by the community and a note has been added, it will reflect on other matching images posted on the platform to combat misinformation more effectively.

Community Notes members will now be able to access these tools for videos as well.

Why It Is Important: Community Notes is an open-source tool that allows users to call out misinformation and provide readers with added context about a given topic.

This becomes even more important at a time when AI-powered propaganda tools have become easily accessible – a developer recently built a "disinformation machine" using OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI tools like Midjourney to craft disinformation, complete with news clippings and anchor videos.

All of this cost only $400 and two months of work, showing how easy and cheap it is to spread disinformation at scale.

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