UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:33:45
• Published: 2024-07-12 04:00

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hany Farid, a digital forensic professor, to talk about launching a cybersecurity startup called Get Real Labs (3:00), the growing capability of AI to create totally believable images (6:45), and video (9:00), the Slovakia election example (12:00), the end of shared truth (15:30), why we might learn the lessons from social media regulation failures (20:50), how AI could make things far worse, pre and post election in America (23:45), and how he managed to start a company while also being a university professor (27:00).

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