by admin | Feb 26, 2024 | fake news, misinformation, News, Other Tech News, Smartphones, Social media, The Conversation
As misinformation and radicalisation rise, it’s tempting to look for something to blame: the internet, social media personalities, sensationalised political campaigns, religion, or conspiracy theories. And once we’ve settled on a cause, solutions usually follow: do...
by admin | Jan 20, 2024 | fake news, Internet News, misinformation, News, Social media, The Conversation
Misinformation is the number one risk facing society over the next two years, according to the World Economic Forum. With key elections due in the US, UK and many other nations this year, an onslaught of political misinformation can be expected. Some of this material...
by admin | Nov 4, 2023 | Column, Columns, fake news, misinformation, Toby Shapshak, Twitter, X
After posting a video on X/Twitter supposedly showing armed Hamas fighters going to the homes of Israelis, Ian Miles Cheong wrote: “Imagine if this was happening in your neighbourhood, to your family”. Except the video clearly showed Israeli police, according to a...
by admin | Jun 30, 2023 | AI, chatbots, ChatGPT, Clickbait, Column, Columns, fake news, generative AI, Internet News, News, Toby Shapshak
As concerned as educators are about students using ChatGPT to do their homework, it seems a more worrying use of artificial intelligence (AI) has already emerged. Clickbait websites – which make money from programmatic advertising – now using AI chatbots are...
by admin | Jun 12, 2023 | algorithms, fake news, Internet, Internet News, News, The Conversation
Fake news is a complex problem and can span text, images and video. For written articles in particular, there are several ways of generating fake news. A fake news article could be produced by selectively editing facts, including people’s names, dates or statistics....
by admin | Nov 16, 2022 | AI, App News, artificial intelligence (AI), Deepfake, fake news, Intel, Internet News, misinformation, News, Other Tech News, Technology News
These days, even experts struggle to detect fake images and videos on the Internet. With AI coming along as far as it has, deepfakes are becoming more commonplace, with fake faces and voices being indistinguishable from the real thing to the naked eye. Deepfake refers...
