Disinformation
topic on 7 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Knowledge Project 
Masters of Scale 
Sourcery 
the MAD Podcast 
How I Built This 
All-In
8 statements about Disinformation, every show
Poilievre: The greatest antibody to disinformation is good information
“There is no perfect answer to disinformation, but the single greatest antibody to bad information
Is good information. To have an overabundance of information so that the truth clashes with the falsehood, and in the long run, human beings judge for themselves.”
Klein: Combating AI disinformation requires cryptographic proof of reality
“I think the opportunity for disinformation is really large and it's going to take some sort of, you know, proof of reality in media. Same thing along with like proof of personal. I think there's just more, I'm not a crypto person, but it seems like there's a c…”
Bret Taylor argues AI hallucinations will help solve digital disinformation
“And if you want a contrarian take on this, I think it will help with the disinformation problem a bit. People don't assume everything coming out of these agents is a hundred percent accurate and they like verify it. And my hope is the combination of these AI t…”
Jeremy Kahn: AI regulation should focus on present risks over existential fear
“I do not think that that fear should be the basis on which all AI regulation is based. And I do not think it's should crowd out efforts to police risks that are very real and here now around racial bias, around disinformation around job loss.”
Luan: AI cyber attack risk is 10x to 100x larger than disinformation
“I think it's like 10 x larger than the disinformation problem, if not a hundred x larger. In a world where these models are much more easily used as a mechanism for attack than a mechanism for defense, there's gonna be this period of time over the next couple …”
Altman: Models orders of magnitude above GPT-3 could enable massive disinformation
“Like, at some point there will come a time, one, two, three orders magnitude, who knows what, how much more powerful than GPT-III, where I think a language model Can really have a huge disinformation effect on the world.”
Sacks: DHS redefined disinformation as an escalation of the terror threat level
“A couple of months ago, there's a news story that we might've covered on this pod where the Homeland Security Department redefined disinformation to comprise they said it represented an escalation of the terror threat level.”
Direct content regulation fails to fix the underlying drivers of disinformation
“When governments go after the content of what's being shared I think that's a mistake. I don't think that's getting to the underlying problem that's sort of fueling the fake content or the disinformation to spread or to go viral in the first place.”