The Université de Montréal is launching a campaign to combat disinformation by creating a website that will use artificial intelligence to quickly detect fake news. The Minister of Canadian Heritage announced on Monday that the project will receive approximately $300,000 in financial assistance.
“Projects like this play a vital role in establishing and maintaining the trust of Canadians,” said Minister Pascale St-Onge.
Artificial intelligence and disinformation are not a good mix for our democracies, the minister stressed. In light of this poisoning of the public space, Ottawa announced Monday its support for a project from the University of Montreal that aims to fight fire with fire: using artificial intelligence to combat fake news, but this time, shared inadvertently by Internet users.
The project will take the form of a website and a web browser extension aimed at detecting disinformation.
The tool will be able to detect fake news in all languages and in all its presentations, whether text, audio, video or image, regardless of the source.
More details will follow.
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