Linguist explains how AI makes fake news more credible

Fake news generated by AI is often perceived as more credible than texts written by humans. That worries linguist Silje Susanne Alvestad. In 2017, "fake news" was chosen as the new word of the year by the Language Council of Norway. But what are the linguistic features of fake news, and can fake news be uncovered on the basis of linguistic traits? Linguist Silje Susanne Alvestad has examined this in the project "Fakespeak—the language of fake news." She and her research colleagues have investigated the language of fake news in English, Russian and Norwegian.