AI and Propaganda in the Israel-Hamas War
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This episode was recorded on 10/10/23.
Every war comes with a fog that makes it hard, if not impossible, to tell what’s going on while it’s being fought. The Israel-Hamas War is no different. What sets it apart is a digital information space rife AI generated images, perverse incentives, and outright propaganda.
This week on Angry Planet we sat down with Emauel Maiberg and Joseph Cox of 404 Media come on the show to talk about covering the war’s and how the digital world has supercharged disinformation.
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| 0:19.2 | Uh, so, can you all tell me a little bit about who you are and what it is that you do on the internet? What you think you're doing over there on your fancy website? |
| 0:23.0 | Fancy website, I mean it looks very fancy, yeah, but making... |
| 0:30.0 | Not as much money as I think people would expect, but yeah, you know, I'm Joseph Cox, one of the co-founders of 404 Media, and we wake up and we find crazy articles or investigations to produce. |
| 0:45.0 | What about you, Emmanuel? |
| 0:47.5 | I'm a Omyberg. |
| 0:49.2 | I am a co-founder of 404 Media. |
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| 1:09.0 | So y'all are here because you've published some things recently that made me absolutely furious when I saw them in a |
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| 1:31.0 | because I saw it and I was like, |
| 1:32.0 | I should have fucking done that I'm so mad. Well we'll get into it but this was a manual's idea |
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