In Barnsley, the council has not seen AI adverts – but has faced content creators claiming things about the authority that are not true.<\/p>\n
I show council leader Sir Steve Houghton the fake York image.<\/p>\n
“It looks real, I wouldn’t know,” he says.<\/p>\n
His council has tried to correct things and get creators to retract false information.<\/p>\n
“We’ve even had some people with content saying we’re not going to change this because we’re making money out if it. Now that is unbelievable.<\/p>\n
“We have to use our channels to try and counter a lot of that activity.<\/p>\n
“It is a worry, particularly around social cohesion. We do at the moment get a lot of misinformation about asylum seekers and disinformation about asylum seekers.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to correct that because people need to be safe.<\/p>\n
“People go on social media and go ‘oh, look at this, it must be right or people wouldn’t have put it on’.<\/p>\n
“Well I’m sorry, people do put things on. Sometimes by mistake and they’re wrong but sometimes deliberately and we’ve got to monitor and correct that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Barnsley, the council has not seen AI adverts – but has faced content creators claiming things about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-358692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358692","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=358692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}