Bots, Ballots, and You
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00:00 Introduction by David Richards
Can you spot the fake?
Live AI demo of generating fake images of President Biden.
Sometimes guardrails work, and sometimes they don't.
Live AI demo of generating fake news story about upcoming election.
Live AI demo of generating ways to exploit vulnerable code.
Opposition party proposes 20,000 amendments.
29:52 Trusted hardware and signatures
33:41 Could liability encourage voluntary AI labels?
Generative AI emulates the brain in some ways but not all.
Misleading buzzwords include hallucination, model, alignment, interpretability, prompt engineering
47:04 When does it make sense to use AI?
Tradeoff between creativity and trust
Why the criterion isn't low versus high stakes
53:55 Opportunity versus prescription
57:59 Are our online contributions being used to train today's models?
Reddit and Stack Overflow are now selling your data to AI companies.
AI is being incorporated behind the scenes into Gmail, Office, and other common tools.
60:09 Is human manipulation required to create deep fakes?
How large language models create new images from existing ones.
This video is an edited version of a recording by John Harlow at the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, Maine for Somerset Community TV 11. For more information, contact ude.eniam@otiloppij.
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With AI reshaping the contours of political discourse, veteran journalist and media historian Michael Socolow and New Media professor Jon Ippolito led the 2024 Maine Town Meeting on AI's influence in a crucial election year. This video is an excerpt from this event at the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan on 10 May 2024.
This presentation features Jon Ippolito, co-founder of UMaine's Learning With AI initiative, who surveys five threats that generative AI presents to democratic elections and evaluates the solutions proposed to counter them.
Ippolito is a professor in the University of Maine's New Media program, which teaches animation, digital storytelling, gaming, music, physical computing, video, and web and app development. Learn more about New Media's hands-on webinars.
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