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Apple News In Conversation
Apple News
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Guest-hosted by Brian Stelter: Between the upcoming presidential election, rapidly improving artificial intelligence, and weakened social-media safeguards, disinformation is becoming an increasingly urgent issue in the U.S. In her new book, Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America, legal analyst and former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade argues that American democracy will suffer if we don’t distinguish truth from lies. McQuade spoke with Apple News In Conversation guest host Brian Stelter about America’s disinformation problem and how to address it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Brian Stelter filling in for |
| 0:08.4 | Shimita Basu. Today, America's disinformation problem, how it affects all of us and what we should do about it. |
| 0:17.0 | Earlier this year, just ahead of the New Hampshire primary, |
| 0:24.8 | some voters in the state received a robo-call |
| 0:27.2 | that sounded like it was coming from President Biden. |
| 0:30.4 | Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again. |
| 0:37.0 | Your vote makes a difference in November, not this Tuesday. |
| 0:41.0 | That was not a call from Biden or his campaign. It was an AI-generated |
| 0:45.9 | impersonation of Biden's voice. This sort of stuff is happening all the time. |
| 0:52.0 | Just a couple of weeks ago images circling is happening all the time. |
| 0:56.0 | Just a couple of weeks ago, images circulated on social media that appeared to show Donald Trump with black voters. |
| 0:59.0 | But BBC reporters noticed something strange. |
| 1:02.0 | It looks like they're at a party, all great. The C reporters noticed something strange. |
| 1:02.8 | It looks like they're at a party, all great, |
| 1:05.0 | until you realize there's lots of strange things |
| 1:06.8 | going on with fingers, which is one of the best ways to spot AI. |
| 1:10.0 | People are missing a finger, or they have lots of extra fingers. |
| 1:13.5 | Disinformation has been a problem in American life for decades, |
| 1:17.5 | but it's getting more and more intense now. |
| 1:21.0 | With an election coming up, an artificial intelligence getting more and more |
| 1:24.6 | sophisticated, it's getting harder to tell what is real and what is not. |
| 1:29.4 | I think we need to take back the idea that there is such a thing as truth. |
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