Charity Launches AI ‘Muses’ for Fact-Checking, Research

With Meta disbanding its fact-checking program, technical charity The Society Library is stepping up, developing AI agent ‘Muses’ for fact-checking and research.

Released in beta this week on X (formerly Twitter), Telegram, and Discord, the @MuseofTruth and @MuseofResearch AI agents are designed to advance the charity’s mission to “help people seek truth and make more informed decisions.” The AI agents were created as a way to thank the crypto community for creating the SL token in their name and donating a large share to the charity.

The @MuseofTruth agent is designed to be as “objective and unbiased as possible,” a spokesperson for The Society Library said. When tagged, @MuseofTruth performs a fact-check by calling the Society Library’s internal V.1. fact-checking AI, available via their API. Operating on a minimum of 14 pages of expert instructions for analysis, the agent searches the web using the charity’s “bifocal browser” system, combined with a fine-tuned model created for the logical deconstruction of content.

Unlike conventional LLMs, the @MuseofTruth draws on “diverse sources, an analysis, and identifies gaps in evidence,” the nonprofit said, adding that the agent advances its educational mission through teaching users epistemology. The @MuseofResearch, meanwhile, is designed to retrieve topic-related content.

Built atop AI16Z’s Eliza architecture, the agents have a biography, lore, linguistic style and personality. Although the Society Library considers the agents “tinker toys” compared to the truth-seeking work they are building tools for internally, the charity teased a future roadmap including three more Muses and, potentially, “secret muses” to come.

“Meme-ing the mission”

Founded as an “independent freedom-fighting force” working on software, standards, methods, educational curricula and AI systems, The Society Library’s datasets have been used for truth-seeking by the public, government, and the private sector.

Its Muses project was created as a thank-you to the crypto community for “meme-ing the mission of the Society Library all around the world,” after ai16z founder Shaw launched an “experiment in generosity,” donating $15,000 worth of tokens to the charity and encouraging others to donate their meme coins.

The crypto community stepped up, with an anonymous third party developer creating an SL token named after The Society Library, and handing over 50% of its supply to the nonprofit. After having the contract and early blockchain transactions audited by third parties, The Society Library made the decision to lock 80% of its SL holdings—40% of the total supply—so as not to damage the community, instead vowing to use the token to “broaden the awareness of, and support, the mission over time.”

SL Token contract address for community safety: 7wUwkXo8Qjt3cYM8BaHHHeyfDY7ZSn7qvod92pNupump