About Meedan

Meedan is a nonprofit organization committed to improving access to accurate information and countering misinformation through innovative technological solutions. Meedan codesigns open-source tools and programs, enabling communities — especially those that have been historically underserved — to access the information they need to organize and mobilize.

About Their AI Solution

Meedan has created a tool called SynDy that uses large language models to create synthetic datasets, which can be used for training local classifiers. These classification tasks, which involve tagging content in various languages based on user-specified categories, have traditionally been rather resource-intensive endeavors. They typically required lengthy data annotation and rigorous review by diverse participants speaking many languages, a situation for which it can often be difficult to recruit. With LLMs, this process can be streamlined so the work done by humans focuses primarily on verifying the authenticity of work performed by AI, significantly reducing the cost and complexity of building classifiers for journalists.

Learn More:

https://meedan.com/post/leveraging-generative-ai-for-linguistically-diverse-classification