Meghan McCarty Carino

Yeah, you are trained to do that as a journalist.

What does it sort of say about what this new reality in our information ecosystem kind of requires of everyone or at least, you know, institutions of journalism of, you know, kind of informational verification?

That was Casey Newton at Platformer.

Nicholas Guillaume produced this episode.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino, and that's Marketplace Tech.

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Information apocalypse now.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

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.

Right now, where do you see AI causing the biggest problems in our information ecosystem?

If you can give me some recent examples.

We'll be right back.

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I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

We're back with Aviv Ovadia, CEO and founder of the AI and Democracy Foundation.

So often when I come across some kind of AI-generated, you know, image or video that I do realize eventually, you know, is AI, often by looking into the comments first, you know, it's like every time I see something, I just look immediately at the comments to see if someone has suggested, oh, this is AI.