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Disinformation: How organisations find and debunk fake news about the Ukraine invasion

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The war in Ukraine is the subject of much online disinformation and propaganda but fact-checking organisations are tracking down how social media posts spread and debunking them Technology 14 March 2022 By Chris Stokel-Walker Firefighters try to extinguish a fire after a chemical warehouse was hit by Russian shelling near Kalynivka village in Ukraine on … Read more

Internet scams: People are bad at spotting fake LinkedIn profiles generated by AI

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Social media profiles with deepfake photos and AI-generated text fooled most participants in a study, even when there were obvious errors Technology 21 February 2022 By Chris Stokel-Walker A man browsing LinkedIn Chris Batson / Alamy Social media profiles that contain telltale signs of fakery still convince large numbers of users to accept friendship requests … Read more

Fake faces created by AI look more trustworthy than real people

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Synthetic human faces are so convincing they can fool even trained observers, and they may be highly effective for use in scams Technology 14 February 2022 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre A collage of fake faces generated by an AI Anatolii Babii / Alamy Artificial intelligence can create such realistic human faces that people can’t distinguish them … Read more

The Olympics Has 100 Percent Fake Snow–Here’s The Science of How It Gets Made

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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The winter Olympics conjure up images of snowy mountain ranges, frozen ice rinks and athletes in cold-weather gear. And for good reason. Winter Olympic venues have often been in places that receive an average snowfall of 300 inches per … Read more