A IA é unha arma perigosa na era da desinformación

A capacidade da IA para difundir a desinformación está alcanzando novas alturas perturbadoras -quizais a forma máis alarmante é a súa armonización a través de deepfakes. Recentemente, Scarlett Johansson pediu unha prohibición da tecnoloxía de deepfake despois de que un vídeo aparecese en liña cunha versión xerada por IA dela.

“… I also firmly believe that the potential for hate speech multiplied by A.I. is a far greater threat than any one person who takes accountability for it. We must call out the misuse of A.I., no matter its messaging, or we risk losing a hold on reality,” the actress told People Magazine.

“… I also firmly believe that the potential for hate speech multiplied by A.I. is a far greater threat than any one person who takes accountability for it. We must call out the misuse of A.I., no matter its messaging, or we risk losing a hold on reality,” the actress told People Magazine.

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People are frequently turning to AI to speed things up, or create sensation, especially in the media industry. Last year, a Wyoming reporter was caught using AI to create fake quotes and stories. Creating sensational stories with the help of AI has already proven dangerous. The anti-migrant violence in UK was born from online misinformation.

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After the incident of three girls being tragically stabbed in the UK, rioters created AI-generated images that incited hatred and spread harmful stereotypes. As per The Guardian, far-right groups also made use of AI music generators to create songs with xenophobic content. This content spread across online apps like TikTok via efficient recommendation algorithms.

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Last October, according to Wired, AI-powered search engines like Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity were found promoting scientific racism in search results.

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Remember when Elon Musk’s xAI released Grok-2, an image generator using Flux with almost no safeguards? This feature allowed users to create uncensored deepfakes, like Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump posing as a couple, sparking deep concerns, is this unprecedented creative freedom, or a dangerous threat to democracy and the integrity of public discourse?

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Henry Ajder, un experto en intelixencia artificial que estudou deepfakes durante case unha década, dixo: "Estamos nun punto de inflexión onde a presión dos legisladores e a concienciación entre os consumidores é tan grande que as empresas tecnolóxicas xa non poden ignorar o problema".O algoritmo

“Estamos nun punto de inflexión onde a presión dos legisladores e a conciencia entre os consumidores é tan grande que as empresas tecnolóxicas xa non poden ignorar o problema”. — Henry Ajder, experto en IA de xénero.

"Estamos nun punto de inflexión onde a presión dos legisladores e a conciencia entre os consumidores é tan grande que as empresas tecnolóxicas xa non poden ignorar o problema". - Henry Ajder, experto en IA de xénero.

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For example, Google said it is taking steps to keep explicit deepfakes from appearing in search results. Watermarks and protective shields haven’t actually worked so far. But regulation is being upped. For example, the UK banned both creation and distribution of nonconsensual explicit deepfakes. The EU has its AI Act and the US has been pushing for the Defiance Act.

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Meanwhile, startups like Synthesia promise hyperrealistic deepfakes with full bodies that move and hands that wave. Deepfakes are just getting a whole lot more realistic. How will we stop the evil side of this?

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A IA está axudando na fraude financeira

AI está axudando na fraude financeira

AI-generated fake news spread on social media is heightening the risks of bank runs, according to a new British study that says lenders must improve monitoring to detect when disinformation risks impact customer behavior. Other kinds of fraud are also rampant.

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Also, Juniper Research predicts that the value of eCommerce fraud will rise from US$44.3 B in 2024 to US$107 B in 2029, a growth of 141%.

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Todo grazas á IA, que está alimentando a sofisticación dos ataques en todo o ecosistema do comercio electrónico, co uso de deepfakes creados usando IA para derrotar os sistemas de verificación sendo unha ameaza clave.Esta ameaza, combinada co crecemento dos niveis de 'fraude amigable', onde a fraude é cometida polo propio cliente, como a fraude de reembolso, está ameazando cada vez máis a rendibilidade dos comerciantes.

A IA está a axudar aos fraudadores a manterse por diante das medidas de seguridade e a cometer ataques sofisticados a unha escala maior.A IA tamén está a facer posibles ataques de maior calidade a unha frecuencia sen precedentes creando mensaxes credibles e identidades sintéticas.

Debería a IA ser tan aberta como a internet?

Debería a IA ser tan aberta como a internet?

Meta’s AI chief, Yann LeCun, has urged that AI should be as open as the internet since eventually, all our interactions with the digital world are going to be mediated by AI assistants. LeCun explained that platforms like ChatGPT and Llama will constitute a repository of all human knowledge and culture, creating a shared infrastructure like the internet today.

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He said that we cannot have a small number of AI assistants (OpenAI’s ChatGPT and alike) controlling the digital diet of every citizen across the world. “This will be extremely dangerous for diversity of thought, for democracy, for just about everything,” he added.

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As AI becomes more and more human-like, we must remember that it is still not human. As Microsoft’s Satya Nadella told Bloomberg Technology, AI is software and it doesn’t display human intelligence.

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"Ten intelixencia se queres darlle ese apelido, pero non é a mesma intelixencia que teño", di.

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Navanwita Bora Sachdev, editor, The Tech Panda

Navanwita Bora Sachdev, editor, The Tech Panda