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AI Dominates Media Landscape, Fact-Checking Crucial in Fight Against Fakes

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the media industry, Alexander Yakovenko, deputy director-general of the international media group Rossiya Segodnya (Sputnik's parent company) and member of the Russian Security Council’s Scientific-Expert Council, told Sputnik.
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"Everybody believed that media is becoming more and more technologically oriented. And what's interesting that today, for example, in China something like 70% of news is made by artificial intelligence. That's a lot," he said.
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He also addressed the challenge of disinformation: "Because this is a real problem today."
"This is very important. There is also a point that certain things, in order to have some kind of a proof, the news should be marked. It means that the news is really original and is not a fake," he said.
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