2019
DOI: 10.31921/doxacom.n29a10
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Artificial intelligence and journalism: diluting the impact of disinformation and fake news through bots

Abstract: The article addresses the understanding of misinformation as a phenomenon that goes far beyond the term “false news”, increasingly known in Anglo-Saxon idiom `Fake news’. These terms have been appropriate and misleadingly used by powerful actors to dismiss the information coverage leading to complete disinformation and, therefore, to a dizzying fall in credibility. Disinformation, as we discussed in this article, includes all forms of false, inaccurate or misleading information designed, presented and promoted… Show more

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“…This is a sensitive field under which the reliability and integrity of information has always been in the line of fire, even before the advent of Generative AI systems. AI has the capability to generate articles which can have biased interpretations which in the end contributes to the misinformation (Flores Vivar, 2019). This has a two-pronged affect, one being the trust of public in media will dwindle and second is the implications for democracy and informed public discourse.…”
Section: Impact On Journalism and Spread Of Misinformationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is a sensitive field under which the reliability and integrity of information has always been in the line of fire, even before the advent of Generative AI systems. AI has the capability to generate articles which can have biased interpretations which in the end contributes to the misinformation (Flores Vivar, 2019). This has a two-pronged affect, one being the trust of public in media will dwindle and second is the implications for democracy and informed public discourse.…”
Section: Impact On Journalism and Spread Of Misinformationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…-los riesgos y la responsabilidad sobre los contenidos generados de forma automatizada (Lewis et al, 2018; Chen y Wen; 2021); -la necesidad de regulación de las posibles aplicaciones, desde una perspectiva general de gobernanza (Túñez-López, 2021) o desde el punto de vista de fenómenos específicos como las deepfakes (Yadlin-Segal y Oppenheim, 2021); -la percepción de lo humano, y su implicación emocional con la audiencia a través de estas tecnologías (Gonzales, 2017;Shin, 2021); -las repercusiones sobre la profesión y el potencial impacto de la posibilidad de la reducción de tareas humanas ; -el papel de la IA en el ámbito de la desinformación, tanto los riegos de amplificación como las oportunidades para combatirla (Manfredi-Sánchez y Ufarte- Flores Vivar, 2019;Túñez López, 2021); -las crecientes diferencias en las habilidades que se requieren para gestionar esta nueva área de especialización y el potencial de los algoritmos para generar sesgos (Marconi, 2020;Ventura, 2021).…”
Section: Retos éTicos Entorno Al Uso Periodístico De La Inteligencia ...unclassified
“…Este sería el escenario más desfavorable posible para la audiencia ya que la probabilidad de encontrar una mentira sería la misma que la de una verdad. De esta circunstancia ya alertaba la empresa de consultoría Gartner en 2019 cuando afirmaba que, en el plazo de dos años, "el público occidental consumirá más noticias falsas que verdaderas" (Flores-Vivar, 2019).…”
Section: Desinformación Con Imágenes En Medios Digitalesunclassified