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Truth Sleuth and Trend Bender: AI Agents to fact-check YouTube videos and influence opinions

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10577v2
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:25:34 GMT
Title: Truth Sleuth and Trend Bender: AI Agents to fact-check YouTube videos and influence opinions
Authors: Cécile Logé, Rehan Ghori,
Abstract summary: This paper develops an AI-powered system that fact-checks claims made in YouTube videos and engages users in the comment section.<n>Our system comprises two main agents: Truth Sleuth and Trend Bender.<n>We demonstrate the system's capabilities through experiments on established benchmark datasets and a real-world deployment on YouTube.
Score: 0.5261718469769449
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: Misinformation poses a significant threat in today's digital world, often spreading rapidly through platforms like YouTube. This paper introduces a novel approach to combating misinformation by developing an AI-powered system that not only fact-checks claims made in YouTube videos but also actively engages users in the comment section and challenge misleading narratives. Our system comprises two main agents: Truth Sleuth and Trend Bender. Truth Sleuth extracts claims from a YouTube video, uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach - drawing on sources like Wikipedia, Google Search, Google FactCheck - to accurately assess their veracity and generates a nuanced and comprehensive report. Through rigorous prompt engineering, Trend Bender leverages this report along with a curated corpus of relevant articles to generate insightful and persuasive comments designed to stimulate a productive debate. With a carefully set up self-evaluation loop, this agent is able to iteratively improve its style and refine its output. We demonstrate the system's capabilities through experiments on established benchmark datasets and a real-world deployment on YouTube, showcasing its potential to engage users and potentially influence perspectives. Our findings highlight the high accuracy of our fact-checking agent, and confirm the potential of AI-driven interventions in combating misinformation and fostering a more informed online space.

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