George \u200cClooney says advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from fiction, posing a challenge \u200cfor journalists, governments and the public.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, where received \u00a0a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, \u200cthe actor, filmmaker and political activist said deepfake technology and AI-generated content were undermining trust in information.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s getting harder and harder for us to discern the truth,\u201d Clooney told reporters, adding that the burgeoning technology could make people doubt genuine evidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWorse than that, because you poison the well of saying \u2018maybe this is true\u2019, \u2018maybe this isn\u2019t\u2019, then when you see \u200creal things that are \u200creally true, people \u2060are able to say, \u2018Well, that\u2019s fake\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The two-time Oscar \u200bwinner, who has won awards for his campaigns to promote justice, said he recently met leading AI developers and was unconvinced current safeguards would be enough to keep pace with improvements in the technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s working furiously at it, and I haven\u2019t seen any great strides yet in success,\u201d he said, joking that he didn\u2019t want to think of his likeness being \u2060used after he has gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to avoid being \u200cin a \u200btampon commercial 20 years after I\u2019m dead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He linked the AI challenge to wider concerns about journalism, saying \u200bmedia ownership had \u200cbecome concentrated in the hands of a small number of wealthy individuals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe richest people in the world right \u200bnow are owning the Washington Post and Twitter and most of the places we get our information, and that is a concern,\u201d he said, referring to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk respectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe state of journalism \u200bis \u200balways in flux, always challenged,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I do \u200bbelieve that information will find its way out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clooney was in Venice to receive the festival\u2019s top career honour after nearly three decades of regular appearances on the Lido, dating back to the premiere of Out \u200bof Sight in 1998.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on receiving the award at 65, Clooney joked that growing older inevitably brought a \u200btouch of melancholy.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything is melancholy,\u201d \u2060he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou brush your teeth and think, \u2018My teeth used to be so much nicer.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George \u200cClooney says advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from fiction, posing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,448118,447,480,134,344,448117,44],"class_list":["post-878924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-c19-entertainment","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-movies-tv","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}