Show HN: Factifi – Real-Time Fact-Checking Content

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7 points | by umittal10 13 hours ago

8 comments

  • Klonoar 12 hours ago
    Can you expand more on what "proprietary datasets" means...? Where are the research papers pulled from?

    Edit: it's also immediately obvious the number of brand new accounts that are engaging in the comments here with generic comments.

    • umittal10 12 hours ago
      Okay, firstly you we use SEC and a few other datasets from Google and similar datasets. We filter them based on credibility. The research papers are pulled from a corpus called Semantic Scholar which is pretty high quality. We also do ArXiv and PubMed.
  • ka2429 12 hours ago
    Ferrari is losing coz of its strategy. Please fact check it
    • umittal 12 hours ago
      Sorry. They’re just ass.
  • AddySmith2410 12 hours ago
    Sounds interesting, can you tell me more about the claim generation?.
    • umittal 12 hours ago
      We use some peer reviewed methods to identify questionable claims.
  • aan85 10 hours ago
    How long does it take for a claim to be verified?
  • shrishti12 12 hours ago
    Can it fact check articles, posts etc?
    • umittal 12 hours ago
      Yes. Please install. You can see it!
  • defrost 11 hours ago
    What does it conclude about the full and complete comment histories of these three accounts?

    * https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ka2429

    * https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shrishti12

    * https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=AddySmith2410

    Is there are word to describe that behaviour?

    • umittal10 10 hours ago
      Thanks for proving our point for us. People will do whatever they want. Some of us are smart enough to check the truth, but most of us are not. There’s a need for fact checking and hopefully, people can come to a consensus on that.
  • slater 12 hours ago
    Can it also check "Show HN" posts with suspicious amounts of simple replies made by suspiciously-new user accounts?
    • umittal10 11 hours ago
      lol we’re trying to prove that the internet is biased.
      • wredcoll 11 hours ago
        Biased towards what is the far more important question
        • umittal10 10 hours ago
          Biased towards whatever the hell someone wants to portray. Truth is no longer displayed, what’s displayed is only what you want. HN is one of the better platforms and so you can tell. What about the others where bots dominate?
          • wredcoll 10 hours ago
            I'd like it to be biased towards objective facts and not hurting people, how about that?
          • nonhaver 10 hours ago
            ah man they got us. we thought it was spam when it was a social experiment all along. now look whos got egg on their face.
  • ab2345 10 hours ago
    Can it be integrated with social media platforms? Since that is where most misinformation is circulated