Peter Smith
⬤ X just dropped Collaborative Notes, a fresh take on its Community Notes fact-checking tool that mixes AI speed with crowd wisdom. Here's how it works: users can now request a note that gets instantly written by AI, then the community jumps in to rate it and suggest tweaks. The whole point is getting accurate context out there faster while keeping the neutrality that made Community Notes work in the first place.
⬤ The interface shows exactly what you'd expect from a hybrid system - an AI-generated note clearly marked as "collaborative," with simple thumbs up/down options and a box where people can drop their suggestions for improvements. So basically, the AI handles the heavy lifting of writing the initial draft, but real humans decide whether it's actually helpful. It's X's way of saying "we trust the algorithm to write fast, but we trust the crowd to keep it honest."
⬤ Right now, only Top Writers working on English posts who hit certain writing impact thresholds can access the feature. X says they'll expand based on how things go and what users think. The whole system stays open source, keeping with their transparency approach for Community Notes.
⬤ This Collaborative Notes upgrade is pretty telling about where platform moderation is headed - AI gets content out the door quick, but community consensus is still the final word on what's legit. Could be a blueprint for how social platforms tackle real-time fact-checking at scale without going full robot or full human.
Peter Smith
