Information Apocalypse Now.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

Our information ecosystem has not been great for a while, but generative AI has definitely kicked things up a notch.

Whether it's fake images of former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, AI generated videos of ice interactions, or a viral hoax posted on Reddit, alleging exploitation

at a food delivery app, it's getting harder to verify what is real on the internet.

The idea of an information apocalypse or infocalypse is something Aviv Ovadia has been

warning about for a decade now, well before AI came on the scene.

He's the CEO and founder of the AI and Democracy Foundation.

I was worried about the inability to trust everything we can see in here, and in particular, the inability to, even if you see something that's real,

not being able to trust and know that that is actually real. And we've seen pretty much every

aspect of that, that we're worried about from scams affecting pretty much everyone, especially

the elderly, to propaganda, to just making it really costly to navigate the information

environment for everyone. Right now, where do you see AI causing the biggest problems

in our information ecosystem? If you can give me, you know, some recent examples.

The challenges around AI in our information environment run the gamut.

You know, we have the, yes, propaganda and sort of persuasive fakes,

and the costs around verifying things that are real.

You have financial fraud, so it's affecting both individuals and then our institutions

and slowing them down.

You have non-consensual imagery. You have people trying to use gender of AI to fill in faces

of people who are masked. And then those people, that's done incorrectly because the AI doesn't

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