Rhetorical Hyperbole Is the Defamation Defense Du Jour (Guest Column)
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Forget libel-proof plaintiffs. In the era of fake news, it s all about the libel-proof defendant. Just ask Tucker Carlson and Barstool Sports.
Consumers of news are increasingly trained to be skeptical of what they read and hear from the media and political leaders. With a country increasingly divided in its political choices and media consumption, everything is fake news to someone else.
Suffice to say, this puts a great strain on defamation law. Judges hardly the most media savvy are forced to grapple with cultural products they hardly understand.
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Why humans and AI are stuck in a standoff against fake news
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Fake news is a scourge on the global community. Despite our best efforts to combat it, the problem lies deeper than just fact-checking or squelching publications that specialize in misinformation. The current thinking still tends to support an AI-powered solution, but what does that really mean?
According to recent research, including this paper from scientists at the University of Tennessee and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, weâre going to need more than just clever algorithms to fix our broken discourse.
The problem is simple: AI canât do anything a person canât do. Sure, it can do plenty of things faster and more efficiently than people â like counting to a million â but, at its core, artificial intelligence only scales things people can already do. And people really suck at identifying fake news.