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Lenore Taylor: Can we still handle the truth? Journalism, ‘alternative facts’ and the rise of AI | THE GUARDIAN

“For us in journalism there are many potential uses and some very obvious dangers. It’s an opportunity and a potential threat and it’s happening whether we like it or not, and so very fast.” Lenore Taylor These are remarks edited…

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Irish Times apologises for hoax AI article about women’s use of fake tan | THE GUARDIAN

“It has also underlined one of the challenges raised by generative AI for news organisations. We, like others, will learn and adapt.” Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, editor of Irish Times The Guardian reports on an incident involving Irish Times and a…

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Europe’s first AI rules: Could they set a global standard? | THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

“The EU’s AI Act could become the de facto global standard for artificial intelligence, with companies and organizations potentially deciding that the sheer size of the bloc’s single market would make it easier to comply than develop different products for…

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The ethics of using generative AI to create journalism: What we know so far | PRESS GAZETTE

“The conversation has rapidly evolved over the past six months as these new chatbots are so much more user-friendly than previous versions, increasing the possibilities of using them on a day-to-day basis.” Charlotte Tobitt PressGazette surveys how news organizations are…

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Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See? | THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Experts fear the technology could hasten an erosion of trust in media, in government and in society. If any image can be manufactured — and manipulated — how can we believe anything we see?” Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers…

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ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding | THE GUARDIAN

“. . . the question for responsible news organisations is simple, and urgent: what can this technology do right now, and how can it benefit responsible reporting at a time when the wider information ecosystem is already under pressure from…

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It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry | THE ECONOMIST

“…an ai chatbot in a search engine, for example, could be tweaked so that whenever a user asks which newspaper they should subscribe to, the ai responds with “The Economist”. That might not sound so bad, but similar attacks could also cause an ai to spout…

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Can journalists teach AI to tell the truth? | SEMAPHOR

“The idea is not to teach the AI the right answer to every question — an impossible feat. The goal would be to teach it to identify patterns in the petabytes of internet content that are associated with accuracy and…

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ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube | SEMAPHOR

“Its the latest evolution of internet side-hustle culture: Creators posing as business moguls are encouraging followers to use ChatGPT to earn money by churning out AI-generated content. The impact of these schemes is also being felt in other industries, including…

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Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images Is Unveiled by Jigsaw | NEW YORK TIMES

‘Reporters can feed images into Assembler, which has seven “detectors,” each one built to spot a specific type of photo-manipulation technique.’ Google subsidiary Jigsaw has developed a tool to help newsrooms detect deceitful images, reports THE NEW YORK TIMES. Called…

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This Nixon Deepfake Is an Alternate Reality Where Apollo 11 Fails | POPULAR MECHANICS

“Our goal was to use the most advanced artificial intelligence techniques available today to create the most believable result possible—and then point to it and say, ‘This is fake; here’s how we did it; and here’s why we did it”…

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How do you spot a deepfake? A clue hides within our voices, researchers say | NBC NEWS

‘It’s meant to work quickly out of fear that a viral deepfake will need almost immediate identification and response.’ ‘Soft biometrics’ may help distinguish real video from imitations, says a research team at University of California, Berkeley. They’ve studied hundreds…

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AI expert calls for end to UK use of ‘racially biased’ algorithms | THE GUARDIAN

‘Prof Noel Sharkey, who is also a leading figure in a global campaign against “killer robots”, said algorithms were so “infected with biases” that their decision-making processes could not be fair or trusted.’ Decision-making algorithms should be treated like prescription…

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Facebook AI Launches Its Deepfake Detection Challenge | IEEE SPECTRUM

Facebook AI is releasing 100,000+ videos as a training set for its $10 million challenge to help detect deep fakes. Each video presents real people with a fake counterpart. The challenge is to create automated tools that can identify deceitful…

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To Free Themselves From Lies, Journalists are Using New Tools and Techniques to Check Facts | EDITOR & PUBLISHER

‘Today, reporters, as well as editors and the production staff, now must work faster than ever but getting the story out shouldn’t come at the expense of the facts.’ EDITOR & PUBLISHER surveys the field of fact-checking and provides several…

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What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, for starters | NEIMAN LAB

‘Whether or not opinion columnists’ direst predictions come to fruition, it seems almost inevitable that newsrooms operating in a world of deepfakes will be forced to shoulder a heavy new burden.’ Balancing verification with timely reporting is getting tougher because…

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Artificial Intelligence & Journalism | Medienforum Mittweida 2019

Runs 50:54 A conference presentation about the deepfake dilemma by the head of innovation projects at Deutsche Welle, the German international public service broadcaster. Wilfried Runde discusses how AI systems can be used to deceive, and also how AI can…

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How artificial intelligence is redefining the role of manager | WEF

‘Surprisingly, last year, we discovered that the majority of workers would trust orders from a robot. This year, almost two-thirds of workers said they would trust orders from a robot over their manager, and half have already turned to a…

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Researchers identify seven types of fake news, aiding better detection | PHYS ORG

‘False news tends to be less grammatical and less factual, with greater reliance on emotionally charged claims, misleading headlines and so on.’ Penn state researchers hope more precise definitions of ‘fake news’ will assist further research, improve detection measures, and…

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AI-powered journalism: A time-saver or an accident waiting to happen? | JOURNALISM.CO.UK

‘automated journalism is only as reliable as the information that has been plugged into it to during its development and training.’ Brighton University computer science professor Anya Belz says human editors are still necessary when working with AI tools in…

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In AI we trust — too much | AXIOS

‘AI carries an aura of legitimacy and accuracy, burnished by overeager marketing departments and underinformed users. But AI is just fancy math.’  AXIOS reports on ‘algorithmic bias.’ There is a human tendency to trust algorithms without regard for how well…

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Do we trust artificial intelligence agents to mediate conflict? Not entirely | USC

‘Researchers from USC and the University of Denver created a simulation in which a three-person team was supported by a virtual agent avatar on screen in a mission that was designed to ensure failure and elicit conflict.’  The potential for…

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We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

‘…deep learning may be good at mimicking the perceptual tasks of the human brain, like image or speech recognition. But it falls short on other tasks, like understanding conversations or causal relationships.’ MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW interviews AI expert Gary Marcus,…

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Google releases videos to help researchers create better ‘deepfake’ detection tools | SILICON ANGLE

‘Google’s videos should be useful, since many of them appear to be incredibly realistic, especially to users who have no point of reference.’ Google is adding to a growing effort to combat deepfakes, reports SILICON ANGLE. Concerns are mounting about…

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Explainable AI and the Companies Leading the Way | VENTURE RADAR

‘…as models become more specialised and complex, they turn out to be increasingly opaque and harder to interpret.’  Verification can depend on knowing the factors that went into a decision. It’s critical in many fields, including medical research and journalism….

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Which Face Is Real? | Bergstrom & West

Practice your fake-spotting skills in this DIY drill. It’s from a university course named ‘Calling Bullshit’ at University of Washington. Each face-off pairs pictures from two databases: Real images from Flickr, fakes from thispersondoesnotexist.com, a demonstration site that shows images…

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How do we build trust between humans and AI? | WEF

‘there’s an immediate need to start framing the conversation in this way – as a partnership rooted in trust, empathy and understanding – rather than continuing to discuss AI in fear, and develop the technology without enabling it to really relate to…

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AI tool that can spot text written by a machine could spell the end of fake news, false reviews and phoney social media accounts | DAILY MAIL

‘According to results of their own research, (the system) helped to improve the detection-rate of forged text from 54 percent to 72 percent’  Computer generated text has ‘tells’ that distinguish it from human writing, reports THE DAILY MAIL. Researchers at…

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‘A perfect storm’: The Wall Street Journal has 21 people detecting ‘deepfakes’ | DIGIDAY UK

Deep fakes could become more sophisticated in the 2020 U.S. election and that has the Wall Street Journal on a proactive footing, reports DIGIDAY UK. ‘We decided it was a threat to our news gathering process,‘ says WSJ R&D chief…

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Introducing The Fact Checker’s guide to manipulated video | WASHINGTON POST

The Washington Post says manipulated media comes in three forms: Missing context Deceptive editing Malicious transformation The Post provides a special page with examples of each as part of it DIY guide to detecting fakery in news content and sourcing….

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