Welcome back Hanray,
just to provide some context for others, here’s the initial suggestion our yours you mentioned above:
What I get from this description is that you feel there’s a need for the reader to get more background information than he’s usually presented. Ideally, information would be fact checked and interlinked with related information on that topic. This could be approximated by some kind of wiki structure in which news articles have multiple links to related stories and sources for the facts they present. This wouldn’t be the perfect solution, because going through dozens of links is a very time consuming way to verify the truth or certain claims. Anyway, let’s go to your points one by one:
What do you want to verify exactly? That a certain user has added a story at a specific time? What would be the value of that? Or do you want to verify more?
How do you want to check and enforce that?
How do you plan on finding out what biases are present in a story? Using the crowd to judge that, or expert evaluations or AI methods?
This is pretty much the norm for social media nowadays, or do you want something more that’s not already out there?
An interface for what exactly? What features do you want to add that should be accessed with intuitive controls? And how do you envision Augmented Reality to play a role in providing further context? I think some data visualization for data that has been linked to a story would be great. But you can already do that on regular web pages and apps without needing AR for that. How would AR help? By enabling more data to be presented at the same time perhaps, maybe via a network of graphs that could be shown to the reader?
At least partially, yes. Being quickly able to find out how true a story is, would be quite useful – at least for those who still really care about that. And grasping the context of a story quickly is very important. Even correct information can be used to mislead people by only presenting part of the picture. So, those are two different problems:
- Evaluating the truth of information
- Placing information in a sufficiently complete context
Which of these issues do you think is more important?
If such an application acted as new platform for journalist media, it could educate people very quickly and effectively. An educated population is the requirement for a really well working democracy. There are certainly a lot of groups who don’t want something like that to exist, because it would be disruptive for their own particular interests. A project like this should be backed by the people. Crowdfunding would be the preferred method of financing it.
I’d like top be presented with the relevant information that I need to make the best decision in a particular situation. Information should be timely, relevant, meaningful, and correct. Checking news outlets or social media seems a bit suboptimal for me, because the information presented there may or may not be relevant for me at any particular moment. Instead, being fed the information just before I probably need to act on it, would be preferred. The problem with that may be that there may not be enough time to “digest” that information, but in most circumstances, that would be a superior method.
When considering the far future I would want the most relevant information to be integrated into my mind directly via an AI that connects with my brain via some kind of neural interface. I would suddenly “know” and “remember” all the facts I need to be aware of in any circumstance. Getting such a sci-fi technology to work just right will be a tremendous challenge, but it seems to be the optimal long term solution to me.
In the medium term future having an AI assistant that I can ask about anything and that provides correct and meaningfully contextualized information would be great. Related data could be displayed via overlays in AR glasses or contact lenses.
Short term, an app that unifies aggregation, verification, and contextualization of information would be great. That’s still a lot to ask from a single app, so maybe having three apps for each task would be easier to implement. For the user that wouldn’t be idea, but it would still be a significant improvement over what we have today.