Musk X Open AI produces community notes, combining human review to expedite fact-checking.

The social platform X under Musk is preparing to allow AI to generate community notes (Community Notes), in order to speed up the fact-checking process on X. However, these annotations written by AI still need to be manually reviewed before being published on X.

AI writing annotations will go live this month, and developers can propose to participate.

According to reports, X's product manager Keith Coleman stated that X is about to test the automatic generation of community notes by AI and plans to open it up for developers to submit their own AI agents for company review. The process will be as follows:

The developer first submits the AI agent.

The AI agent will first write a few practice comments in the testing background.

If the company determines that these comments are helpful, this AI will be officially activated to write comments that will be publicly released.

AI helps to write, but whether it can go online is still decided by "people".

Coleman emphasized that AI can indeed help write a lot of content and reduce labor costs, but whether to make these annotations public ultimately depends on the "diverse perspectives of humans." This is similar to the current logic of community note review, where an annotation will only appear below a post if people from different positions all feel that it is "helpful." The rules will not change because of AI participation.

Expected annotation output increase

Currently, X receives about "hundreds of" comments published daily, but Coleman stated that after the integration of AI in the future, the number of comments may significantly increase, though he did not disclose the actual target number.

The community notes feature, a fact-checking mechanism for X user collaboration, existed long before Musk acquired Twitter (Twitter) in 2022. However, since being acquired by Musk and renamed X, the platform has enhanced this feature. Recently, Meta and TikTok have also begun to follow suit by introducing similar functionalities.

Musk strongly promotes community notes, but has also been contradicted by annotations.

Elon Musk himself once referred to community notes as key to combating misinformation, believing that it can resist the invasion of online rumors. But interestingly, his own posts are often labeled by community annotations as "misleading content." Earlier this year, he even mentioned that this system "could be manipulated by the government or mainstream media."

AI can use any technology, not limited to its own Grok.

It is worth mentioning that X does not require developers to exclusively use the chatbot "Grok" launched by Elon Musk's xAI to train these AI annotation robots. Coleman stated:

"Any technology can be used to create AI agents, it doesn't necessarily have to be Grok."

He added that he hopes to establish a brand new feedback loop through this design, which involves human review of AI annotations, to further train a more powerful AI:

"It's not just the opinion of one person, but a collective feedback from a diverse community."

This article discusses how Musk's X and OpenAI produce community notes, combining human review to accelerate fact-checking. It first appeared in Chain News ABMedia.