Several new AI-specific categories have recently been added to the PRToolfinder database – tools to help you write, tools to help you create innovative and imaginative images, and most recently AI tools that create videos out of text! In this post we’re looking at AI, misinformation, higher education and the pace of change.
What have recent changes in AI been? I recently read a blog posting from HEPI in the UK (The Higher Education Policy Institute), an independent and non-partisan think tank devoted to higher education. The piece is titled “The role for higher education in combatting AI misinformation.” The post explores the implications of AI relating to mis- and disinformation at an individual and a societal level, and offers some things to think about.
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Rapid advances in AI have greatly improved its capabilities across content generation and sentiment analysis. Also, by drastically pushing down the costs, they have also reduced barriers to entry. Furthermore, Machine learning is making social media monitoring, text and sentiment analysis much more powerful. This allows for predicting social issues, virality of news events, and which groups may be most vulnerable to misinformation. Large language models (LLMs) can already create text, photos, audio, and videos that are becoming more difficult to distinguish from organic content.
