Video will kill the truth if monitoring doesn’t improve
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting the disinformation playbook. There is no better place to study this than Taiwan, which, the Swedish Varieties of Democracy Project finds, is subject to more disinformation from abroad than any other democracy. China has greatly increased the scope and sophistication of its influence operations on the island using cutting-edge AI. We conducted fieldwork during the elections in Taiwan in January, meeting organisations on disinformation’s front lines. We saw in their experience the signs of how AI could disrupt this global year of elections.
One such sign is the rise of AI-powered video, in particular deepfakes—content created to convince people of events that did not occur.… Seguir leyendo »