The reason this is important and timely is because the messaging around these tools implicitly suggests there is an air of authority and integrity it would be impossible for them to have given that no journalists have examined and analyzed the mechanisms of these tools at any stage of their development.

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    Why on earth would a journalist need to have input on authentication tools??

    Surely this would be more suited for a cybersecurity expert?

    Not that I’d trust an AI-based authentication system anyway.

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      The post title and body don’t make this clear, but “AI authentication tools” in this context refers to tools that verify the authenticity of journalistic image and video media to confirm they’re not AI-generated.

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        Yeah, this could have been worded better… Maybe the post title and body were AI generated?

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          I suspected as much, but I’ll need to consult a journalist to be sure

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        It’s also not a commonly-used term. “AI authentication” mostly refers to using machine-learning AI as an authentication method (eg image recognition, behavior observation, etc.)

        This sounds more like just “fact checking”.

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        Because getting a liberal arts education means you use input from people unqualified to provide that input?

        Getting your BA doesn’t qualify you to do code security reviews. Most journalists get that information from people who are qualified to do so.