Misinformation
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Cuban: Consumers won't abandon misleading AI because users are primed for misinformation
“I wouldn't agree with that, Jordy, because I think people are primed for misinformation these days. You see it in healthcare continuously. You know, you saw it with COVID vaccines. People on their deathbed say, I wish I had taken the vaccine, you know, and you…”
Boureau: Fact-Checking People with Committed Views Only Entrenches Them
“Basically people dig their heels and they're even more convinced of what they thought before than before you tried to reason them. If they're already like so far gone that they're very committed to the position.”
McKenzie: Billions spent on social media content moderation failed to fix trust
“They've invested billions of dollars on this. They come up with these policy documents that are hundreds of pages long. And it doesn't appear to us like it has actually helped misinformation problems, or it's helped Reduce the level of harassment, or it's help…”
Narayanan: Misinformation affirms existing beliefs rather than changing them
“In a way, I think misinformation is more of a symptom than a cause. I think, you know, misinformation slots into and affirms people's existing beliefs as opposed to changing their beliefs. And I think the impact on AI here, again, has been tremendously exagger…”
Ten good people with AI will counter one bad actor
“I'm not so much worried about the dangers of AI and misinformation because I think the way to Stop one bad guy with an AI as 10 good people with an AI. And ultimately there is so much more one by creating than by destroying that I think that the forces of good…”
Evans: Most visual misinformation relies on fake captions, not AI images
“You don't need to make a fake image. The fake is in the fake is in the caption. There's not a shortage of, there's not a fake is in the. Yeah. What is it that I'm saying? What is it that I'm seeing here? So, you know, if you want to make a picture of an airstr…”
Sam Lessin: Platforms Will Drop News, Driving Misinformation To Encrypted Channels
“The social networks are going to do the smart thing, which is they're going to say, screw it. This isn't worth the pain, right? We're just not going to like care about that. We're just going to demote this stuff just as we've done globally. Like we can't, it's…”
Thomas: Renewable Opponents Target Clean Energy Solutions, Not Climate Science
“I think one of the biggest surprises when I started to research misinformation was that people aren't denying the science of climate change. A lot of the misinformation was more related to the solution to climate change.”
Accuracy reminders only reduce misinformation sharing if delivered at the exact moment
“So with that, actually one of the insights was that reminding people About their value of accuracy. So most people want to be accurate. Most people actually don't want to share this information. And so if you can remind people at the point of sharing, by the w…”
Marcus: Nobody knows how to prevent chatbots from being toxic or misleading
“Nobody knows, you know, how to make their chatbots constrained and not toxic and not spew misinformation.”
Sacks: Misinformation regulation will inevitably be weaponized for partisan attacks
“At the end of the day, this term of misinformation is just another vector for partisan attack, and it will be used by whoever we give the power to decide what misinformation is.”
McGonigal: Combating Misinformation Requires Triggering Emotions Around Facts, Not Pure Reason
“We need to play on people's emotions more because that's how conspiracy theories work. It's how propaganda works. It's all based on emotion. So we can't just talk, you can't just reason your way out of that. You just have to, you have to trigger the emotions a…”