AI Seer's Facticity.AI, the Multimedia and Multilingual Fact-Checker, Wins ASEAN Digital Awards for Digital Content. Fact-checking Any Text is Now Available Too.

Bangkok, Thailand, January 29, 2025 --(PR.com)-- It was recently reported in USA Today that, "Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, he said, enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling, he said, while social media is giving up on fact-checking. 'The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit,'" said a politician, "stressing that social media platforms must be held accountable to protect children and families from abuse of power." If a user runs the above through Facticity.AI (click through to see more details), he/she would find that the claims, “Social media platforms are abandoning the practice of fact-checking” and “Truth is being overshadowed by lies that are spread for power and profit” are difficult to verify upon closer scrutiny but the three other alarming claims have some truth in them. Facticity.AI is a tool that people can use to quickly dig their way out from under the “avalanche of misinformation and disinformation,” which threatens to overwhelm people even more as GenAI adoption rises, especially if they are heavy users of social media platforms, which ended third-party fact-checking programs. But consumers can equip themselves to be more credible writers and discerning readers on their laptops and desktops with www.Facticity.AI/writer because of the potential licentiousness of absolute free speech.

AI Seer Pte. Ltd. (“AI Seer”) is headquartered within ASEAN where the Net Enrolment Rate (NER) in primary education is sometimes below 90% in Cambodia and the Philippines, and even below 60% in Myanmar. AI Seer hopes its gold medal at the ASEAN Digital Awards spurs more private and social sector involvement in helping prepare the most disadvantaged in information literacy to authenticate information in a world of scams and faked news. If even technologically savvy people in an advanced liberal democracy are ill-equipped to handle the information overload, vulnerable people in ASEAN need help. To try and raise informational and AI literacy in the region, AI Seer has participated in various library and school events and the ASEAN-India Startup Festival in Jakarta in 2022. AI Seer even contributed a first-of-its-kind ASEAN-APJ Factual Multi-lingual Benchmarking Dataset to the AI Verify Foundation’s Project Moonshot, to help people speak truth to powerful LLMs when they mix up fact with fiction. In Bangkok for the finals, Dennis Yap and Von Wong from AI Seer unveiled its factual dataset in Thai and expanded it to include fun facts about Thailand for the first time. One of the judges, Rohan Alexander Bramall, from Australia remarked, “AI Seer: AI lies, but it’s not its fault. It doesn't know any better. AI Seer is backed by legendary figures such as Tim Draper and uses a proprietary stack to provide the most accurate automated fact-checking to users from organizations such as Time and the BBC.” According to the Ministry of Digital Development and Information of Singapore, “AI Seer, making its first appearance as a finalist at the awards, has made significant strides in truth verification with their pioneering platform, Facticity.AI. This achievement highlights their commitment to combating misinformation and enhancing the transparency and accuracy of information.”

Dennis explained to the technocratic panel of judges that he wants people to be able to have a more nuanced and meta-analytic relationship with information, and is working on adding location, culture and language. According to Vanessa Otero the Founder of Ad Fontes Media, “Facticity.AI is a breakthrough fact-checking tool. I’m so impressed with how the AI Seer team has implemented LLM technology to hone in on specific claims and find relevant, reliable information to validate or debunk them. Ad Fontes Media is proud to be a partner of AI Seer by providing the meta-analysis data of the reliability and bias of news sources, which allows users to see, right in the Facticity tool, how reliable underlying sources for claims are. In the current information environment, it’s incredibly important for people to be able to easily and quickly discover the truth of claims, as well as trust the underlying sources of corroborating information. Facticity does that in an elegant and useful way.” According to Matt Aulja, a company director, says, "Due to the prevalent media bias, he finds himself only taking seriously articles that present viewpoints contrary to what I typically expect from that particular outlet,” and that is why the triangulated ratings compiled by Facticity.AI from different sources across the ideological spectrum could be useful in evaluating atomic factual claims.

"Facticity.AI has global applications, especially in these challenging times for fact-checking as a profession. It could also save lawyers a lot of time and energy as legal adoption of GenAI is very low and LLMs have been found to hallucinate 1/6 of the time according to a Stanford study when responding to benchmarking queries. Another Stanford study found that even GPT-4 RAG achieves 70% accuracy at the statement level while Faciticity.AI is aiming for more than 80-90%," says Kevin Moon, the Investment Director from Amand Ventures which has backed over 50 startups including AI Seer across ASEAN and beyond. The CTO of AI Seer, A. M. Shahruj explained that this is achieved by: "Facticity.AI’s focus on individual, even sub-sentence level claims and selecting reliable sources, ensuring outputs meet the transparency, traceability, and explainability standards demanded by FMCG businesses, academics, legal and medical professionals. Facticity.AI utilizes customized agents and scaffolding for task execution. To combat model drift and maintain its relevance in a dynamic information landscape, Facticity.AI conducts regular benchmarking across multiple languages and cultural contexts. By creating and updating diverse datasets, AI Seer continually identifies areas for Facticity.AI’s refinement, and drives self-improvement." Scaffolding is now seen by some people as an alternative path to AGI, as compared to scaling and AI Seer through Facticity.AI and its Multi-Spectral Reality Detector products is pursuing Self-Aware AI which is considered a speculative final stage in AI research and part of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI).

AI Seer has filed a full patent for their technology which was provisionally patented on 17 Jan. 2024 ahead of a similar basic research initiative and has filed a full patent on 6 Jan. 2025 and is raising more money to protect their technology in as many countries as possible. Its fact-checking for whatever users can cut and paste into their desktop or laptop browsers is now available at www.Facticity.AI/writer to help them automate away the drudgery of hypothesis testing, source searching, and footnoting to free them to write more credibly and creatively was Dennis' final line of his pitch to the judges of the ASEAN Digital Awards.