AI authentication tools are built without adequate journalist input, new report finds
www.niemanlab.org
It has never been easier (or cheaper) to fake and alter media. The evidence that journalists rely on to verify facts — photographs, videos, documents, websites, and even audio calls with sources — can now be convincingly generated with AI. In June, dozens of journalists, technologists, and a…

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.

  • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    true, be nice if computer scientists had a good look instead

    or maybe journos should check their sources properly like journalists do