From Nationalpost · · 1m 10s
Real journalists matter in AI world
78% of Canadians fear fake news as AI threatens trust.
In brief
78% of Canadians fear fake news as AI threatens trust. 78% of Canadians worry about fake news and disinformation, highlighting the need for credible journalism in an AI-driven world. Originally reported by Nationalpost.
Canadians worry about fake news
Seventy-eight per cent of Canadians say they are concerned about fake news and disinformation.
Nunatsiaq News reports AI-generated fake articles
Nunatsiaq News, an award-winning newspaper in Nunavut, reported a so-called 'news' website posting ai-generated articles about the North by stealing real news stories.
Louise Arbour warns of blurred lines
Louise Arbour warned that the lines between knowledge and belief, truth and falsehood, facts and assumptions are increasingly blurred.
“The lines between knowledge and belief, between truth and falsehood, between facts and assumptions, are increasingly blurred. ai could be threatening not only the way we live and work, but also the control we exercise over our own destiny.”
Government recognizes AI misinformation risk
The Government of Canada stated that canadians encounter news reporting, product reviews, and audio-visual content across the internet without indication of whether it was written by a person, generated by ai, or produced through some combination of both.
Five steps to protect journalism
The government can take five concrete steps to safeguard trusted journalism: no text and data-mining exception, robust supplier commitments, align with uk competition authority's approach, direct competition bureau to study google's ai search crawler, and pass bad bot legislation.
The short version
78% of Canadians worry about fake news and disinformation, highlighting the need for credible journalism in an AI-driven world.
