Sunflower: the algorithm that wants to fight against infox

Computer researchers have recently developed a platform that aims to fight against infox or false information that is spread on the Internet. To do this, the platform is currently trying to collect as much data as possible in order to identify human preferences in terms of content.

Concretely, the platform submits two videos to contributors so that they judge whether the information relayed is relevant and can be considered as being content of public utility or not.

The algorithm can already tell you about the relevance of information on Twitter

Lê Nguyên Hoang, who is at the same time president of the Tournesol association, researcher in computer science and popularizer of science within the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, declared that “ the current goal of Tournesol is really to understand how people rate content “. The first version of Tournesol would also already be in place on Twitter where it is possible to challenge the bot Tournesol to ask its opinion on a video. The association also intends to develop an extension compatible with Firefox and Chrome.

Nevertheless, Lê Nguyên Hoang invites all those interested to visit the Tournesol site and to rate videos in order to ” move a little further towards a world where information recommendations will be more robustly beneficial », He declares to Futura Tech.