Problem we are trying to solve : We consume a lot of information on our mobiles on a daily basis and the overload of information is going to increase with election season down the corner. With Generative AI, it is very easy today to generate fake news that seems credible. There is a real need for a detector that can easily check if a piece of information you have is true or fake.

Solution : Unfaked provides an easy solution, just enter the title or a few lines of the article into the text box and the app will tell you if it is fake or not with a probability. While it does not support video directly, you can use a video to text model to get text or video transcript and pass it to the model and it can tell you if a video is fake or not as well

How we built it : Built it using PartyRock and multiple text generator widgets. Each text generator widget performs one step of the process. First is extract key information from the article, use that to find similar articles from reputable sources. Check if many sources are saying the same thing and also check if the language is human like. Return the result based on the above checks in terms of a probability

Challenges : We ran into challenges with getting a consistent response. Initially, we put all the steps together and expected the model to do the job but it was oscillating between providing a response, listing the steps, providing working details of it how it arrived at an answer. The consistency in response came when we broke it down into multiple steps and then linked them to arrive at the final result. Good insight into how the model works.

Accomplishment : We were able to build this in a few hours using PartyRock and already have a few more improvements that we can make to build this into a robust app.

What we learned : Breaking down the problem into smaller steps increases the accuracy of each step and then the overall final result is more accurate and what you are looking for.

What's next for UNFAKED : Expanding this app to multi modal where it can take image or video as input and integrating it with other apps like speech to text will make it more robust. That's coming up in Release 2 of UNFAKED ... Watch out this space

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