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Andy Dudfield
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Head of AI at @FullFact.org
Long term fan of the web
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The Times here, getting my name wrong, but not my thoughts on online information

www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
A screenshot showing the following text on The Times website Andrew Duffield, the head of AI at Full Fact, said: “It’s quite hard to work out what it is, why it exists and how it is working, and that in itself is part of the challenge here.” He added that unlike Wikipedia, which is fully transparent about its editorial process, Grokipedia was a bit of a black box. Duffield said: “We need to be able to understand what information was used to create this content, what the model underlying it was trained on, what rules it has, what the trust and safety policies are, how we can ask for corrections, what the corrections process will look like, which humans have been involved in it. In their absence it’s very hard to place trust in something.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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It is the hope that gets you. Every time
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I really enjoy this Wales as a tube map vibe, but it necessarily does some absolutely wild things to Welsh geography

livemap.tfw.wales#/aw_en/mapview
A London tube style map of wales
October 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The Guardian has a $320 facts jumper.

It's nice. A neat slogan.

I also work for a small charity who believes facts matter and has a donation page you can visit.

donate.fullfact.org
A screenshot of the Lingua Franca website. It shows a middle aged bearded man wearing a light grey crew neck top with the words 'facts are sacred' written on it in a mock hand written font. The price of $320 is shown below.
September 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Your classic drum and bass bike ride.
August 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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This seems very sensible. For an AI search that might be considered complex, it is showing something closer to a classic search result from trusted sources and not a generated AI one.

fullfact.org/politics/sad...
August 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Looks like images verification style questions might need some work, which is a shame as Google are *really* good at this in other products

fullfact.org/us/trump-eps...
August 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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A fake quote attributed to Donald Tusk

fullfact.org/europe/polan...

The result helpfully explains that this is a badly attributed quote in two parts, but the links it uses to substantiate the second part are seemingly to social media posts repeating the same claim
August 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Is the Labour government going to raise the state pension age to 74?

Features a Full Fact fact check. Good, clear definitive answer.
Potentially features really quite a lot of our article?

fullfact.org/politics/lab...
August 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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My current subscription is £2 a month so I can play my silly little word games. That is quite the uplift my NYT friends.
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July 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This week's stop on the never ending facts and data world tour is quite something.

Olá Rio
A view of the bays and beaches of Rio with mountains in the background and sky lit by an early morning sun rise
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Can not begin to describe just how good the vibes feel at Interesting tonight. Inclusive, silly and of course interesting.
A picture taken from the back of the Conway Hall in London. Russell Davies (not that one) is on stage and behind him a slide reads 'always be clapping'
May 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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'Yes I can hear you Joel Fagliano' (every time)
A screenshot of the NYT games site, highlighting the mini crossword section where it indicates that today's puzzle was set by someone called 'Joel Fagliano'
May 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Thank you to the team at the @journalismfestival.com for organising such a special event. It was great to be able to talk about the vital role fact checking plays in our information eco-system. Something I intend to keep doing #ifj25
A picture of a side street in Perugia. Steps down a hill form the foreground of the image and light yellow and brown houses tumble down the hill on either side, framed and lit to evoke a classic Italian scene on a sunny day. A picture of me presenting. It is fairly closely cropped and I appear to be making an important point. The image is credited to Ascanio Pepe An image taken at the back of a room as I present. The room contains about 100 people and you can mainly see the backs of heads, with me facing them sat at a desk with a large screen behind me. The screen is blank in this image
April 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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From reporting drunk, in Seoul to being on stage talking about it in an insanely beautiful hall in Perugia. Incredible skeet around and find out moment from @sarahjeong.bsky.social
An image of the journalist Sarah Jeong talking on stage at the Perugia journalism festival. https://www.journalismfestival.com/speaker/sarah-jeong
April 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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My first trip to Perugia. Come say Hi.
An image of my face in the international journalism festival template promoting a talk titled how AI is revolutionising fact checking around the world on April 11th 2025
March 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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One for the real west country heads

www.davidlay.co.uk/auction/lot/...
An screenshot of a listing from an auction website. The listing shows a puppet rabbit for sale, which is shown to be Gus Honeybun. A character used in the 1980s on South West Television to celebrate children's birthdays.
March 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I am speaking about why the web needs fact checkers at Data Bites on Wednesday 5th March.

Thanks to @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social for the invite.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...
A picture of me presenting in front of a large screen. You can see a googleslide behind me on the screen, which reads 'What the hell am I doing?' I am waving my arms about and expressively making a point
March 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Looks like @paulclarke.com was the event I was at yesterday and captured some textbook arm waving from me.
An image of me in a slightly crumpled blue suit, sat on chair on a stage at a conference looking fairly intense and making an expressive point with my hands.
February 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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ah yeah - that gets the little overlay at the bottom
January 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Sorry, me again.

These two
www.facebook.com/615527083489...
www.instagram.com/p/DDLT2OjiOnp/

show me (in the UK) these interfaces.
screen show of facebook with a content warning saying 'False information. Reviewed by third-party fact-checkers.' screen show of instagram with a content warning saying 'False information. Reviewed by third-party fact-checkers.'
January 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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3 - Puddle
Potholes occur with traffic over a roadway that has been weakened by water in the supporting soil structure. LLM output that says 'In summary, the image depicts a BMW X1 vehicle parked on a wet asphalt road, with a license plate reading "LK63 JYT." The car is dark in color, parked in a puddle of water, and positioned at an angle. The car's wheels are visible, and the car is parked in a residential area with a brick building and a street light visible in the background. The image is taken from a low angle, with natural lighting and a serene atmosphere.'
January 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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2 - Pot holes!
Example of a pothole reappearing on a newly patched roadway, also showing the transition between crocodile cracking and the pothole, with water dried up, in a road on the Isle of Wight In summary, the image depicts a section of a road that has been damaged by potholes. The road is paved with asphalt, and the potholes are large and irregularly shaped. The road is bordered by a curb on the right side, which is made of a different material than the road itself. The road surface is cracked and damaged, with large cracks and small pebbles scattered across the surface. The image is taken from a slightly elevated angle, and the lighting is bright, with shadows clearly visible.
January 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I showed the huggingface Smol VLM images taken from the wikipedia page about potholes to see what it made of them

huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...

First up - paw prints. No pot holes.
Potholes on an unpaved road in Sweden text from a LLM output reading "An asphalt road curves to the right. The road is wet and has many paw prints. The road is bordered by a low embankment covered in dead leaves and twigs. The embankment is lined with a few thin trees. The trees are bare, and the sky is overcast."
January 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM