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Deepfakes: Experts Speak On The Future of Authenticity Online

Deepfakes: Experts Speak On The Future of Authenticity Online

Advances in generative AI and other technologies used to create deepfake videos, photos and audio recordings are leading to increases in attempts to spread misinformation. The director of the News Co/Lab, an ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication initiative, sees this as a threatening trend that will make it more difficult for people to distinguish truth from manufactured fiction. Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Reality, part of the Fulton Schools, says developing technology to provide cryptographic authentication of information can be a solution, but until then caution and skepticism may be the best defenses against falling pretty to false images. Kambhampati is quoted on another AI-related issue in this report: In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent, The New York Times, March 22

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