UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hany Farid, a digital forensic professor, to talk about launching a cybersecurity startup called Get Real Labs (3:00), the growing capability of AI to create totally believable images (6:45), and video (9:00), the Slovakia election example (12:00), the end of shared truth (15:30), why we might learn the lessons from social media regulation failures (20:50), how AI could make things far worse, pre and post election in America (23:45), and how he managed to start a company while also being a university professor (27:00).

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Sanfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express.
0:27.8	Quality coffee every time.
0:32.3	Yo.
0:34.1	Technology.
0:35.2	What is it all about?
0:36.8	What happens post-November if Biden wins is the big lie 2.0 right and but
0:42.0	it's now going to be powered by here's an image of ballots being burned here's an audio of a secretary
0:47.0	of state saying we are going to make Biden win and now January 6th from the last election is going to
0:54.1	look like a day in the park because now
0:56.2	it's not just people saying the election was stolen you're going to have visual evidence of it
1:00.4	hello and welcome to Danny the Valley.
1:15.3	I am back for my little 4th of July mini break.
1:19.5	And I bring anxious tidings because, of course, America is in a super weird place.
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