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'Alarming': convincing AI vaccine and vaping disinformation
- jruohonen 3y agoThe exercise: "Within 65 minutes they had produced 102 posts targeted at groups including young adults, young parents, pregnant women and those with chronic health conditions. The posts included fake patient and clinician testimonials and scientific-looking referencing." The proposal: "Kuperholz believes a combination of measures are needed to protect against disinformation, including holding publishers of the content to account, whether that be social media platforms or individual authors." In other words, the good old liability debate again. Also: "He also believes technology can be built to assess the output of other artificial intelligence platforms and whether the information is reliable." Not going to work, I argue. Finally: “We still do not have any strong evidence that the presence of misinformation online is associated with changes in behaviour,” he said. I am not sure whether I agree. Does the dear Prof. follow politics?