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How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda

News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible

The Guardian - UK

‘Inceptionism’ and Balenciaga popes: a brief history of deepfakes

What began as a primitive tool has spawned hyperrealistic fakes with the potential to disrupt elections around the world

The Guardian - UK

Proliferating 'News' Sites Spew AI-generated Fake Stories

A sensational story about the Israeli prime minister's "psychiatrist" exploded online, but it was AI-generated, originating on one of hundreds of websites researchers warn are churning out tech-enabled fiction masquerading as news.

International Business Times

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Musk's X Feeds Monetization Of Wartime Misinformation

Influencers on X are monetizing misinformation about conflicts in the Middle East, leveraging the platform's contentious policies that researchers say prioritize engagement over accuracy.

International Business Times

Viral hate and misinformation amid Israel-Hamas crisis renew fears of real-world violence

A six-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by a landlord fearing a ‘day of jihad.’ Watchdogs and civil rights groups are warning platforms and politicians against Islamophobic and racist rhetoric

The Independent UK

Israel-Hamas war poses early disinformation test for Meta’s Threads

Young app seems to have few viral falsehoods, perhaps because it’s still small and used differently from competitors

The Guardian - US

How rumors and conspiracy theories got in the way of Maui's fire recovery

Some of the rumors and conspiracy theories were driven by the island's history, but others were pushed by social media influencers and foreign governments.

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Donald Trump's truth: why liars might sometimes be considered honest – new research

According to fact checkers, Donald Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency. That’s around 20 a day. But, according to several opinion polls during his presidency, around 75% of Republican voters still considered Trump to be honest.

The Conversation

I asked ChatGPT the same question in Russian and Ukrainian – and the results worried me

ChatGPT is leaving non-English speakers behind – and that could impact us all.

TechRadar

Robot takeover? Not quite. Here’s what AI doomsday would look like

Experts say the fallout from powerful AI will be less a nuclear bomb and more a creeping deterioration of society

The Guardian - US

Former Google safety boss sounds alarm over tech industry cuts and A.I. ‘hallucinations’

Arjun Narayan, now the safety chief at a news aggregation platform, thinks that A.I. output is largely a "black box" that can be hard to make sense of.

Fortune

News website Boring Report is using A.I. to change how people consume news—literally making it ‘boring’ by avoiding sensationalism

Amid growing distrust of the media, Boring Report uses A.I. to “aggregate” and “present” news in what it says is a more neutral way.

Fortune

Elections in UK and US at risk from AI-driven disinformation, say experts

False news stories, images, video and audio could be tailored to audiences and created at scale by next spring

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Ted Cruz faces backlash after deadly Texas mall shooting

Senator Ted Cruz ‘should advocate for gun controls rather than invoking prayer after mass shootings’. Plus, King Charles ‘moans’

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Nearly 50 news websites are ‘AI-generated’, a study says. Would I be able to tell?

A tour of the sites, featuring fake facts and odd wording, left me wondering what was real

The Guardian - UK

Chatbot ‘journalists’ found running almost 50 AI-generated content farms

Websites churn out content, often advancing false narratives, to saturate with adverts, says anti-misinformation firm

Bangkok Post

AI 'making dozens of news content farms'

NEW YORK: Dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots are proliferating online, according to a new report by the news-rating group NewsGuard, raising questions about how the technology may supercharge established fraud techniques.

TechRadar

ChatGPT and Google Bard studies show AI chatbots can’t be trusted

New studies on ChatGPT and Google Bard have shown that the AI chatbots will happily write conspiracy theories or worse.

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Fortune

Google's Bard misinforms users 8 out of 10 times without disclaimers and often conveys 'harmful narratives' when prompted, research group finds

A new study found that Google's Bard chatbot tends to endorse prompts about widely-known conspiracies and inaccurate facts, if those prompts asked the chatbot to role play or imagine.

Fortune

A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT are a long way from being trustworthy

Some observers warn A.I. systems are growing too intelligent, but others say chatbots are still too flawed to trust.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Vladimir Putin disinformation machine is unrelenting toward Ukraine a year after invasion

No sooner had President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine on Monday than the Russian state news agency Tass berated the surprise visit to “his ward Zelenskyy” and warned that Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet the same fate as others “who have sold their souls to the Americans.”

The Guardian - US

RT videos spreading Ukraine disinformation on YouTube despite ban – report

The platform banned the Russia-controlled publication last year for its Ukraine falsehoods, but its content is still posted on various channels

Axios

Chatbots trigger next misinformation nightmare

The rise of generative AI could create abundant new opportunities for the spread of misinformation and lies online.

Reason

U.S. State Department Funds a Disinformation Index That Warns Advertisers To Avoid Reason

Reason is listed among the "ten riskiest online news outlets" by a government-funded disinfo tracker.

France 24

ChatGPT: Use of AI chatbot in Congress and court rooms raises ethical questions

User-friendly AI tool ChatGPT has attracted hundreds of millions of users since its launch in November and is set to disrupt industries around the world. In recent days, AI content generated by the bot has been used in US Congress, Columbian courts and a speech by Israel’s president. Is widespread…

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