Photoshopped Scientific Imagery Reminds Us How Hard It Will Be To Automate Deep Fake Detection
Reassuring a nervous public that magical automated deep fake detection algorithms are just around the corner does a disservice to…
The Real Danger Today Is Shallow Fakes And Selective Editing Not Deep Fakes
Rather than focusing all of our efforts on the future unknown risk of deep fakes, we would do better to…
Are 'Bodycams For All' The Solution To Deep Fakes?
Public figures should assume today that everything they do may be recorded. Adopting bodycams-for-all could help them take back control…
How Search Engines Could Use Television Ngrams To Identify Divisive And Distinct Topics
Seen through the lens of search engines, the subtle differences in language use between television stations offers a powerful signal…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
FiveThirtyEight: Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?
FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.
Constructing Deep Learning Models Is Still A Bespoke Process
Far from general purpose learning systems that can be dropped in to replace any human, deep learning algorithms have become…
So Much Of Our Lives Have Been Exposed Through Breaches We Have No Privacy Left
Our relentless focus on social media privacy and behavioral and interest-based profiling is misplaced given that far more intimate data…
Uncovering The Language Defining Each Day: A Decade Of Television News Through Ngrams
Using the power of the cloud, a decade of television news coverage can be analyzed in a matter of seconds…
Why Doesn't Social Media Reward Reading Rather Than Merely Speaking?
Social platforms have devoted all of their efforts to rewarding publishing. Perhaps it is time to start examining the consumption…
What If Social Media Platforms Were More Like Libraries?
Rather than accepting today’s social platforms as the inevitable form of global communication, it is worth thinking what might happen…
The Challenges Of The Digital World Are Not New
The challenges we see today as uniquely digital are in fact merely reincarnations of the challenges societies have long faced…
Social Media Platforms Will Increasingly Define 'Truth'
As private companies increasingly define “truth” we are heading towards a frighteningly Orwellian world in which a handful of unelected…
Deep Fakes Are Merely Today's Photoshopped Scientific Images
Far from a hopeless world of undetectable falsification, the rise of deep fakes is likely to mirror the rise of…
A Small Number of Fact-Checkers Now Define Our Reality
Social media platforms have come to define the modern digital world — and the real world it’s meant to represent….
Reverse Image Search Could Halt Misleading Amazon Fire Photos
Reverse image search could not completely rid the world of misleading imagery, but it could restore context and provenance to…
The 30th Anniversary Of The 'Baltic Way' Reminds Us Of What We Can Accomplish Without Social Media
The ability of traditional organizing and especially radio to mobilize the populations of three entire countries reminds us that many…
Our Digital Assistants Must Do More Than Semantic Matching
Today’s digital assistants are like the rest of the deep learning world: magical at first, but in the long term…
The Focus On Silicon Valley And Killer Robots Is Misplaced
The outsized attention paid to Silicon Valley masks the fact that much of the most actionable work is happening in…
How Do We Stop Driverless Cars And Autonomous Delivery Drones From Becoming Weapons?
As we race towards our autonomous future and pour all of our efforts into building self-driving and self-flying vehicles, we…
We Can't Stop Harmful AI So We Must Find Ways To Counteract It
We must accept that we cannot stop harmful applications of deep learning and instead must focus our efforts on countering…
What If Social Media Companies Forced Us To Read Articles Before Sharing Them?
What if social media platforms instead required us to read articles before sharing them? Read The Full Article.
What If Social Media Users Had Expertise Badges?
Social media represents an anarchistic free-for-all in which all voices are equal and wild unfounded rumors can be published just…
Gatekeeping Is Not The Same As Censorship
Both social platforms and society at large must recognize the clear distinction between the dangers of censorship and the benefits…