Social Links – Trust Issues: AI Literacy, Deepfakes, and the Search For Authenticity

The internet has spent years arguing with itself about content moderation. Who should be responsible for user-generated content? What speech should platforms allow? When should governments step in? Increasingly, a different question sits underneath those debates: how do we know what’s real?

Artificial intelligence has made it easier than ever to generate convincing text, images, audio, and video. Lawmakers are discussing AI literacy in schools and considering legislation to prohibit unauthorized AI-generated digital replicas. Platforms are struggling to contain increasingly sophisticated deepfakes. Courts continue sorting through disputes involving online speech. At the same time, some users are beginning to form emotional relationships with software designed to simulate human companionship.

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