Perplexed by Lies on WhatsApp? Perplexity AI Can Now Fact Check Within the App. – VICE

Who’d have predicted that social media would become a vector for misinformation powerful enough to spur along revolutions, coups, genocides, and all the darkest urges of humanity? Misinformation is carried along its electrical pulses like dandelion fluff on the wind, spreading out far beyond its origin and planting new seeds of doubt, anger, and confusion wherever it lands. The sheer volume of it is matched only by its speed. How’s a person supposed to keep up, to know what’s fakery designed to manipulate and distort? Vet everything. But that’s a tall order for any one person, and it isn’t enough for when you’re not down for a thorough info search, and you just want to skip past all the junk to see photos of your neighborhood chat. Videos by VICE Whether you pay much attention to it or not, misinfo can seep into your consciousness even from a cursory glance. WhatsApp has integrated an AI tool into the app that functions as a labor-saving (if inevitably imperfect and immature) tool to help quickly sort the fakery from the truth from the most dangerous misinfo out there: the half-truths. You’ve just gotta dial +1 (833) 436-3285 in the WhatsApp app to
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