Key Points
In the weeks since Hamas launched its October 7 surprise attack on Israel, the ensuing conflict has generated an unprecedented wave of disinformation, an algorithmically driven fog of war that has tripped up major new organizations and left social media companies floundering...
Even as some wondered if the Israel-Hamas war would be the first conflict dominated by false generative AI images, the technology has had a more complex and subtle impact...
There are definitely AI images circulating but not to the degree where I think its playing a central role in the spread of information, says Layla Mashkoor, an associate editor at the Atlantic Councils Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies online disinformation...
For a lot of people, the ability to dismiss inconvenient facts is absolutely playing a role in this conflict, he says.. Farid cites multiple examples that immediately drew this kind of dismissal, including people pointing to various pieces of digital evidence about who was behind the missile strike on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, as well as images of children buried under rubble, some real, some fake...
And then that went online, and then people are like, Well, wait a minute, if he could have made that one, then that one could be fake, and now these two versions are going around, and everybody started saying, Oh, the puppy was the original, this is the fake, and then you just muddy the water, Farid says.. In other words, this distribution follows a historic pattern: Misinformation gets shared on social media, then amplified via algorithms and humans..
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