Initial commit: AI misinformation detector

app.py

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ def get_zs_pipe():
     if ZS_PIPE is None:
         try:
             from transformers import pipeline
-            # Smaller model -> faster on Hugging Face Spaces
-            ZS_PIPE = pipeline("zero-shot-classification", model="valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-1")
+            # much smaller model (~250MB vs 1.3GB)
+            ZS_PIPE = pipeline("zero-shot-classification", model="typeform/distilbert-base-uncased-mnli")
         except Exception:
             ZS_PIPE = None
     return ZS_PIPE
@@ -31,12 +31,13 @@ def get_sente_model():
     if SENTE_MODEL is None:
         try:
             from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
-            # Lighter & faster (80MB instead of 400MB)
+            # smaller semantic similarity model (~80MB vs 400MB)
             SENTE_MODEL = SentenceTransformer("all-MiniLM-L6-v2")
         except Exception:
             SENTE_MODEL = None
     return SENTE_MODEL
 
+
 def get_gemini_client():
     global GEMINI_CLIENT
     if GEMINI_CLIENT is None: