AI Helped People Spot Fake News—Then Made Them Worse at It: MIT – Decrypt

Jun 10, 2026 - 20:15
AI Helped People Spot Fake News—Then Made Them Worse at It: MIT – Decrypt
In brief MIT researchers tracked 67 participants over four weeks using an AI-powered misinformation detection system. Accuracy improved by 21% during AI-assisted sessions, while unassisted performance later fell by 15.3 percentage points. The study comes as social media platforms, including X, work to crack down on AI-generated war footage. People using AI to evaluate the...

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