Rethinking Anti-Misinformation AI

Vidya Sujaya, Kellin Pelrine, Andreea Musulan, Reihaneh Rabbany

Track: tiny / short paper (up to 5 pages)

Keywords: misinformation, position paper, long term societal impact, shaping collective behavior and learning

TL;DR: We find that the current line of AI-based anti-misinformation works are greatly limited to producing more information, and needs to be made more meaningful by considering insights from other domains, and suggest ways to move forward.

Abstract:

This paper takes a position on how anti-misinformation AI works should be developed for the online misinformation context. We observe that the current literature is dominated by works that produce more information for users to process and that this function faces various challenges in bringing meaningful effects to reality. We use anti-misinformation insights from other domains to suggest a redirection of the existing line of work and identify an under-explored opportunity AI can facilitate exploring.

Submission Number: 35