By Dawn Stover
In this interview, Garlin Gilchrist II, executive manager of the University of Michigan’s novel Center for Social Media Responsibility, discusses potential tools for deterring the spread of mistaken tidings together with rebuilding the public’s trust inwards reliable sources of tidings together with information. Gilchrist describes how “deep fakes”—audio together with video recordings that convey been digitally manipulated to convince people that a pol or celebrity, for example, said something that he or she did non truly say, or did something that did non truly happen—could eventually Pb to an “information apocalypse” inwards which fact becomes indistinguishable from fiction, together with people surrender trying to tell the difference. In the incorrect hands, deep fakes could fifty-fifty hold upwards weaponized to trigger domestic or international crises. With sense inwards both calculator technology together with community organizing, Gilchrist views mistaken tidings every bit a occupation that volition involve an all-hands-on-deck approach akin to the Manhattan Project, involving non alone calculator scientists together with engineers but also social scientists who empathize how mistaken tidings propagates through social networks, together with how to practise incentives for spreading accurate information.
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