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Jay Baxter

πŸ‘€ Speaker
132 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

People often assume the world is very polarized.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

It certainly feels very polarized.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

But people here, they're just making a choice.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

When they see a post, they see a correction, they're like, yeah, the thing's wrong, I'm just not going to share it.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

And that's happening across the political spectrum.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

And we've seen that pattern again and again.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

When we first were designing the products, we did interviews with hundreds of people, left and right, and it was really obvious that most people just want to know what's going on in the world.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

They know they're consuming incorrect stuff, they just want to sift through it.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

And this is just...

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

showing that in action.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

When given information, they're going to try to make a good decision.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

And so I think people often assume, like, man, it must be tough to work on in this space of misleading information.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

It must be, you know, I get sad all the time, whatever.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

It's actually, like, I feel very optimistic working on it because we see there's quite a lot of agreement.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

People are actually quite reasonable.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

So...

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

It seems like it's lower than it might feel.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

Yeah, the idea is, can we have humans and AI co-write these things together, co-create them together, and does that allow us to do this at a much faster speed and larger scale?

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

If there's demand for a note, like people who are requesting a note on a post, AI will take a first shot at it.

TED Talks Daily
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

Humans can write to you, but AI will take a shot, and a bunch of people, they rate it and they make these suggested improvements,