{"id":175746,"date":"2025-09-28T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175746\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:37:10","slug":"is-it-real-or-ai-tech-blogger-warns-of-dangers-of-fake-social-media-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175746\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Real or AI? Tech Blogger Warns of Dangers of Fake Social Media Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kevin-andrews.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Is It Real or AI? Tech Blogger Warns of Dangers of Fake Social Media Content\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kevin Andrews File photo)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s getting harder and harder to discern whether what you\u2019re watching on social media feeds is real, or generated by Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>As AI programs get more sophisticated, the proliferation of images and video purporting to show real events is getting more pervasive.<\/p>\n<p>That, says local tech blogger Kevin Andrews, is\u00a0eroding public confidence, and in turn is leading to greater apathy and desensitization.<\/p>\n<p>He says because anyone can have access to AI to manipulate photos, there are misleading weather photos showing up on social media.\u00a0That includes real photos that are being manipulated to make them appear more dramatic, or pictures\u00a0of events that never happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFabrication and exaggeration really blur the line between what\u2019s real and what\u2019s made up, which really undermines the trust of all the weather reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrews says that\u2019s particularly concerning especially when public alerts regarding major disasters or weather events are issued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReported exposure to false alarms can really make (the) public tune out when warnings are genuine. In emergencies, that hesitation can put lives and property at risk.\u201d He says in these cases, false images can cost lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Kevin Andrews File photo) It\u2019s getting harder and harder to discern whether what you\u2019re watching on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-175746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}