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Brian Howell
Sep 8, 2017, 11:51:14 AM9/8/17
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Listen first: http://www.radiolab.org/story/breaking-news/
Yes, some of the technology discussed is a ways off. But we need to get ready for it—if we can.
So, the question of the week is, considering the discussed technologies, and certainly others that are or also will be available soon, how can we ensure that consumers will be able to discriminate between actual news and faked?
Brian Howell
Sep 25, 2017, 8:41:29 AM9/25/17
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Did anybody listen to my link? I cannot believe nobody had a comment about it.
When Kate and I listened together, we both found the contents very frightening, even terrifying in potential.
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Craig Good
Oct 1, 2017, 1:28:00 AM10/1/17
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I listened to that RadioLab back in July. It was the least compelling and convincing episode I ever heard from them. That Obama demo is risible.
There was a better discussion on Sam Harris’ podcast. I’m just trying to remember which episode.
Maybe https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-is-technology-doing-to-us
The tl;dr is that sound and pictures are entering the domain where text has been for centuries: Easy to fake. And yet we somehow find ways to tease fake text apart from real text eventually. Once a technology is ubiquitous then everybody kind of knows how it works and how it could be used to fool people.
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Data are what you have when you have more than one datum.
There was a better discussion on Sam Harris’ podcast. I’m just trying to remember which episode.
Maybe https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-is-technology-doing-to-us
The tl;dr is that sound and pictures are entering the domain where text has been for centuries: Easy to fake. And yet we somehow find ways to tease fake text apart from real text eventually. Once a technology is ubiquitous then everybody kind of knows how it works and how it could be used to fool people.
--Craig WWSJD?
clg...@me.com http://www.craig-good.com
Data are what you have when you have more than one datum.
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