AI-powered misinformation and disinformation campaigns are a “threat of a generation” but the government’s ability to do anything about it is “quite limited,” says the prime minister’s national security adviser. Article content
Jody Thomas delivered a bleak picture about the growing fight against distorted or false information worldwide during a speech at a Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) event Friday.
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Stop reading right there. Nothing generated by so called “AI” is new or exciting. Language models and image synths can only do what humans do but in higher volume and lower quality. It’s the million monkeys with a million typewriters thing but with spelling and grammar checkers.