AI authentication tools are built without adequate journalist input, new report finds
www.niemanlab.org
It has never been easier (or cheaper) to fake and alter media. The evidence that journalists rely on to verify facts — photographs, videos, documents, websites, and even audio calls with sources — can now be convincingly generated with AI. In June, dozens of journalists, technologists, and a…

The reason this is important and timely is because the messaging around these tools implicitly suggests there is an air of authority and integrity it would be impossible for them to have given that no journalists have examined and analyzed the mechanisms of these tools at any stage of their development.

  • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    It’s also not a commonly-used term. “AI authentication” mostly refers to using machine-learning AI as an authentication method (eg image recognition, behavior observation, etc.)

    This sounds more like just “fact checking”.