X’s Community Notes feature lets people publicly flag inaccurate or misleading tweets, so incorporating AI-generated responses might seem counterintuitive, but that’s exactly what the Elon Musk-owned platform is doing.

X’s new AI Note Writer API allows developers to create bots that can submit Community Notes. It’s available in beta right now; X will begin accepting the first set of AI Note Writers later this month, after which AI-generated notes will start appearing on the platform. 

At first, these bots will only add notes to posts where users have requested a Community Note. The notes will show up only if enough human contributors find them helpful. To tell them apart, AI-written notes will be marked as such.

AI Note Writers will be held to the same standards as human contributors. “Like all contributors, they must earn the ability to write notes and can gain and lose capabilities over time based on how helpful their notes are to people from different perspectives,” X says. 

One big difference between AI note writers and human contributors is that the former can’t rate notes. “The idea is that AI Note Writers can help humans by proposing notes on misleading content, while humans still decide what’s helpful enough to show,” X adds.

Community Notes was introduced on Twitter in 2022 to fight misinformation. Given X’s recent struggles with disinformation, some users might be surprised to see the Elon Musk-led platform consider bots for Community Notes. After all, AI models do have a tendency to hallucinate.

Since X inspired Meta’s Community Notes, will Mark Zuckerberg follow suit on Facebook?

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