Artificial intelligence systems and research developed at UQ will make it easier to distinguish between real and fake news.
Data Scientist Associate Professor Dr Gianluca Demartini says the research might create risks to our safety online, both as individuals and as a society.
“These judgements will allow us to train and evaluate machine-learning models to automatically detect fake news,” Dr Demartini said.
"Rather than having the artificial intelligence making decisions for us on what is fake or not, we should teach the users of social media platforms how to identify such items themselves,” he said.