Deepseek AI: What Technology Means For Information Disorder

As the world moves with the trends of technology, Artificial Intelligence dominates every sector of human endeavor.

With the mass of planet Earth dreading about AI taking their jobs, with the media however, it goes beyond taking away livelihood. It poses a new challenge. 

The rise of misinformation and disinformation is a global problem with enormous, localized impacts, especially for societies with low literacy and digital media awareness or polarized ones battling existing social anomalies.

In either case, this two-headed challenge undermines fragile trust, reignites tensions and incites violence. The dangers of information disorder can not be overemphasized. Just like Mr. Silas Jonathan said on one occasion “if check was enough, there won’t be a need for fact check.”

With Artificial intelligence in the picture, there exists a more daunting challenge. As much as the evolution of Artificial intelligence becomes inevitable, the world and the media has a dire duty to explore alternative solutions to the challenges it poses.

Double Jeopardy

As AI tools like deepseek evolve into the technological landscape of Nigeria, there is a fear and hope. What is the fear? It poses a new challenge of what to fact-check. How do we now get hopeful in terms of disaster? But there is indeed hope amidst this storm, because the same AI provides inciting tools which aids the exercise of fact checking. 

Artificial intelligence plays a dualised, transformative role, serving as a tool both in the spread and countering of misinformation. On the positive side, AI is useful for facilitating and strengthening the information and data democratisation process. The technology offers reporters, journalists, and researchers speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in gathering, producing, and distributing news.

Apart from easing and simplifying tedious newsroom chores and data gathering, AI is an effective assistant for tailoring content, generating insights, optimising feeds, writing news reports and automating operations that enhance the dissemination of information. In other words, amidst the Massachusetts of challenges, there is still light at the end of the tunnel as AI like deepseek provides new OSINT tools that aids fact-checking exercise.

Way Forward 

As the world moves into becoming a computer village that it is, it is advisable for everyone to ensure that Artificial Intelligence tools, as well as internet of things are channeled to become friends of journalists working to counter misinformation. Agreed, Artificial Intelligence comes with its challenges, but the moment we choose to embrace the positive aspect of the innovation, we already book a space in the future technology poses.

With the required knowledge on how to navigate these useful tools which ignorance makes most dread, one can enslave AI and make it Journalists’ friend.