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mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press). Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 8 hours ago • 513 comments

I just released a non-hallucinating AI-based fact-checker that anyone can use for free. I don’t say that lightly: I literally co-wrote a book on verification. All you do is log into ChatGPT, click the link below, and put in a sentence or paragraph for it to check. chatgpt.com/g/g-684fa334...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

There are lawyers on Bluesky and there are Bluesky lawyers and they are two very different things

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Bluesky is full of agitated people giving advice that will get you killed or might, MIGHT, result in your acquittal after the complete destruction of your life. Real life ain’t a flame war, kids.

submitted 12 hours ago • 195 comments

Still playing with this but I've been trying to write about an emerging peddler of false claims on Canadian X but they produce SO much stuff. This allows me to dump in screenshots of the feed. Are the results gospel? No. But it points me at more reading way faster than I'd do on my own.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Or, hear me out, you don't actually know what "hallucination" means.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

I'm a bear when it comes to AI and fact-checking, but when Mike builds stuff like this I pay attention

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Don't even talk to me about LLMs being useless until you try this impressive fact checking tool!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I just released a non-hallucinating AI-based fact-checker that anyone can use for free. I don’t say that lightly: I literally co-wrote a book on verification. All you do is log into ChatGPT, click the link below, and put in a sentence or paragraph for it to check. chatgpt.com/g/g-684fa334...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

In a world that took science seriously you'd pull this cop's gun and badge until he had a serious psych eval. It is not safe for people this susceptible to panic-based delusion to be carrying guns.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is why the people who insist that Trump is going to try to round up every protester who went out for No Kings day so you need perfect protest opsec make me laugh. They're going broke failing to hit their current quotas, they can't just magically round up every grandma with a sign.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

In a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from the JCPOA would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency & destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation 🧐

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

we've been shouting about this since gamergate btw

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

When I die I’d like the @nytimes.com editorial board to lower me into my grave so I can be let down one last time.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Unless I am missing something The University of London report on academic integrity seems to have been generated (poorly) by AI? (H/t Mark Bassett) www.london.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments