This idea of solidifying false memories through repeated exposure is part of what could make false AI images such a risk, says Prasad, who is now a graduate student of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think misinformation, especially when presented as the truth repeatedly, could definitely lead to the creation of false memories, or at least, doubting the validity of your own memories,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
False Memory and AI<\/p>\n
If the Berenstain Bears are a standout example of the Mandela effect, then the viral image of the late\u00a0Pope Francis<\/a>\u00a0wearing a\u00a0giant Balenciaga puffer jacket<\/a>\u00a0is a standout example of what this phenomenon could look like in the world of AI.<\/p>\n \u201cThe pope in a fluffy coat was one of the first [generative AI images] that went viral,\u201d says\u00a0Jen Golbeck<\/a>, a professor at the University of Maryland\u2019s College of Information who studies AI, social media, and trust online. \u201cAnd there’s probably people who saw that image and didn’t realize that it was [AI] generated. We’re in such an interesting time now where people know they have to be suspicious, but some people just don\u2019t care.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n There are a number of headwinds that have made the perfect storm for this kind of misinformation to spread, Golbeck said, including the rise of \u201cfake news<\/a>\u201d sites, the erosion of institutional trust throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the rise of increasingly convincing content from gen-AI. The risk of being tricked by AI comes not only from human-prompted creations, but from believing\u00a0AI hallucinations<\/a>\u00a0as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This idea of solidifying false memories through repeated exposure is part of what could make false AI images…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-35208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}