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Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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How do you evaluate “factuality” without knowing all the facts, though? That’s the downfall of all such services - eventually (or even immediately) they begin to just push their preferred agenda because it’s easier and more profitable. That said, at 16 you’re just learning, and literally whatever you accomplish will be a great achievement, so go down these paths and learn your lessons

Hi there, thank you for your feedback! I think we could potentially go down the route of a web3 approach where we get the public consensus on the facts.

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

#53

How incredibly cool to see young people that are interested and capable of building things! I have a couple of rhetorical questions. How do you expect a language model to see through propaganda and other large-scale misinformation by power/money with a megaphone? How do you expect a computer program that can't reliably determine what letter a word starts with to determine objective truth? I appreciate that you have a…

Thank you! We are working on our own LLM that is based of a multitude of data, we also will double check or even triple check all the information through our DB and the internet. We are working to make it as reliable as possible.

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

#55

congrats! I think if you really want to shine - you should have a real time api that fact check any televised election debate or interview :) Good luck and keep on building

Yea, we are building one currently. It should be ready in the summer (as we have APs and finals coming up)

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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> It evaluates context, factuality, coherence, and more to ensure the accuracy and credibility of content.

Based on what it does the evaluations? Is there some set collection & hierarchy of sources and if so will I be aware of it after it is done?

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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> I'm a high school student with a passion for tackling misinformation online. Inspired by the need for more reliable content verification tools, I decided to create Factful. It's an AI-powered web app I stopped reading here because LLMs do not deal in facts. LLMs are statistical models of the relationships between words. An LLM can regurgitate facts that appear in its training data, but they are incapable of disting…

Searle, is that you?

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

#59
I'm having a lot of fun with this!

Prompt:

> Factful.io uses a hand-coded natural language parser to determine factual accuracy to within a tolerance of 12.3 standard units of factfulness.

No revisions, it must already be perfect!

Prompt:

> The only remaining bias in Factful.io is that which is legally required by the USDA.

No revisions, it must already be perfect!

Prompt:

> Factful.io checks everything you enter against a database of known facts as defined in ISO 102522 "A comprehensive list of all that we know to be true."

Suggested revision:

> It seems like there might have been a misunderstanding or an error in communication. If you have a specific question or topic you'd like to know more about, please provide more details so I can assist you effectively.

Prompt:

> Factful.io provides the Objective Truth as determined by an international panel of experts from countries which have names beginning with "Y" and no ports.

Suggested revision:

> The reduction in extreme poverty over the past two centuries is one of the most significant changes in human conditions. The decline from over 80% of the global population living in such conditions in 1800 to under 20% by 2015 represents a major shift, driven by a combination of factors including economic growth, technological advancements, improved health care and education, and international aid and development efforts. The World Bank's international poverty which which was set at $1.90 per day in 2011 prices, is a benchmark used to measure extreme poverty globally. Adjusted for inflation, this threshold would be equivalent to $2.57 per day in 2023 dollars. Living below this line means that individuals lack the resources to meet their basic needs for survival. Despite the progress, extreme poverty remains a critical issue, particularly in regions like South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria, for example, was have to have the highest number of people living in extreme poverty with 2018, with 86 million individuals below the international poverty line. Efforts to combat extreme poverty continue through various means, including economic development, and in education and health care, and targeted poverty alleviation programs. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, include a goal to end poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030. Achieving this goal will require sustained and concerted efforts from governments, international organizations, the private sector,

I think it's fair to say there's some edge cases left to smooth out. ;)

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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> I'm a high school student with a passion for tackling misinformation online. Inspired by the need for more reliable content verification tools, I decided to create Factful. It's an AI-powered web app I stopped reading here because LLMs do not deal in facts. LLMs are statistical models of the relationships between words. An LLM can regurgitate facts that appear in its training data, but they are incapable of disting…

Searle, is that you?

What if the people translating the characters were neurons? ;D

Also, it's rich to imply humans don't do literally everything LLMs are accused of to argue they're fundamentally different from humans.

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