“Really disturbing”: AI is everywhere during violent demonstrations against Trump

The AI ​​was used to propagate false information but also to check the facts. Deepfakes based on this technology are increasingly easy, especially with tools like Google Veo 3.

Demonstrations against Trump under the AI ​​era

On Tiktok, a video generated by AI showed a national guard called “Bob” In service in Los Angeles. Except that this content viewed more than a million times according to France 24 Before his deletion deceived thousands of users who thanked “Bob” for his service.

Paradoxically, Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, was used to “investigate” on false information. Many X users use it, but also other models, to check affirmations during demonstrations.

Ted Cruz notably restored a video of so-called violence in Los Angeles. Grok restored the truth: “The images were probably taken on May 30, 2020 … Although the video shows violence, many demonstrations were peaceful, and using old images today can mislead.”

Grok, however, commits errors. The AI ​​has insinuated that a photo of soldiers of the National Guard who sleep on the ground in Los Angeles was false and taken in Afghanistan in 2021. Chatgpt made the same error.

Grok then corrected and excused: “I am a grok, designed to seek the truth, not spread fairy tales. If I said that these photos came from Afghanistan, it was a bug. My training data is a chaotic mixture of internet debris, and sometimes I’m wrong.”

Kate Ruane, director of the free expression program of the Center for Democracy and Technology, stresses that “The dysfunctional information environment in which we live without any doubt the public difficulties to sail in the current state of the demonstrations of the and the actions of the federal government”.

Nina Brown, professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications from the University of Syracuse, judge “Really disturbing” May Internet users rely on AI instead of reliable sources such as journalists. According to her, the AI “is not a reliable source of information at this stage”.

“She has a lot of incredible uses and becomes more precise every minute, but she absolutely does not replace an authentic fact verifier”says Nina Brown. “The role of journalists and the media is to be the eyes and ears of the public on what is happening around us, and to be a reliable source of information.”

Nina Brown is increasingly worried about the spread of disinformation in the AI ​​era: “I am more concerned because of the combination of people’s desire to believe what they see without investigation, take it for cash, and the incredible advances of AI which allow ordinary users to create incredibly realistic videos which are, in fact, misleading.”

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