It's not an AI issue, there's human based fact checks that similarly "confirm" as "true" the non-interesting bit of a claim. Snopes has a "Correct attribution"

It's not an AI issue, there's human based fact checks that similarly "confirm" as "true" the non-interesting bit of a claim. Snopes has a "Correct attribution" label for this, which also covers ambiguous jokes, misstatements etc. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rating/correct-attribution/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rating/correct-attribution...