Category: Trust
‘A perfect storm’: The Wall Street Journal has 21 people detecting ‘deepfakes’ | DIGIDAY UK
‘Heightened political tensions, increasingly sophisticated technology and the speed at which fake content can spread, has elevated the importance in spotting these fakes.’…
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…
Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We are outgunned’ | THE WASHINGTON POST
The ability to create synthetic videos outweighs detection methods by ‘100 to 1’, according to a digital forensics professor at UC Berkeley quoted…
You can train an AI to fake UN speeches in just 13 hours | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
With $7.80 in computer time and 13 hours of human effort, two UN researcher coaxed an AI system to write convincing United Nations…
Five questions you can use to cut through AI hype | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW offers a checklist by Karen Ho to help assess hype-heavy claims about products ‘powered’ by artificial intelligence. Her five hurdles…
Artificial sincerity, too? | jAI
The idea of an AI personality on television was parodied in a 1980’s UK production known as Max Headroom. It featured a computer-generated…
How Reuters is training reporters to spot ‘deepfakes’ | DIGIDAY
DIGIDAY UK reports Reuters how created its own fake video to test its inhouse verification team and stepup its ability to detect deepfakes….
New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators | THE GUARDIAN
OpenAI says it’s withholding some of the science behind its text-generating AI model GPT-2. THE GUARDIAN reports the company is concerned that the…
This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘Bias can creep in at many stages of the deep-learning process, and the standard practices in computer science aren’t designed to detect it.’…
WaPo Editorial: A reason to despair about the digital future – Deepfakes | Jan 2019
‘The ability to use machine learning to simulate an individual saying or doing almost anything poses personal and political risks that societies around…
How to recognize fake AI-generated images | MEDIUM
‘Here are some things you can look for when trying to recognize an image produced by a GAN.’ MEDIUM provides several examples of…
Trust highest in Sweden and Germany, lowest in Hungary and U.K. | 9 country study
RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE worked with YouGov during summer 2018 to understand attitudes about trust in media, favoured media sources, and…
How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes | NEIMANLABS
“Raising awareness in the newsroom about the latest technology is critical,” said Christine Glancey, a deputy editor on the Ethics & Standards team who…
Do People Trust Algorithms More Than Companies Realize? | HBR
THE HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW reports that people favour advice from algorithms over the same advice given by other people. Researchers in the study…
Marcus & Ernest: No, artificial intelligence won’t solve fake news | Oct 2018
‘Existing A.I. systems that have been built to comprehend news accounts are extremely limited… lacking a robust mechanism for drawing inferences or a…
It’s Getting Harder to Spot a Deep Fake Video | BLOOMBERG
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