cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47372299
A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X.
This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.
When the program launched five years ago, X positioned it as a way to harness the knowledge of users to add context and corrections to tweets. It described Community Notes as a way to “broaden the range of voices” fighting misinformation.
Then, in July 2025, X started allowing people to use automation to mass-generate and submit AI notes. That new feature made it inevitable that human writers would eventually be overtaken by bots. But it happened faster than I predicted.
So can they legally be called community notes still?
The termn “Legal” is become something quite elastic in certain governments.
With the Notes bots fact-checking the Post bots, and AI Scraper bots reading the posts, I think the hard work is done and we can all just never think about Twitter again.
