Generative AI misinformation concerns the creation and dissemination of synthetic media—such as hyperrealistic deepfake images, videos, and voices—used to deceive, manipulate, or exploit individuals and publics. Work in this area examines AI-enabled impersonation, political and commercial disinformation, scams, and non-consensual explicit content, as well as their psychological and societal impacts. It also investigates technical and sociotechnical defenses, including detection models, watermarking and provenance systems, security against data poisoning and backdoors, and human-centered interventions to preserve trust and information integrity.
Internet
Profound changes are ahead for online advertising. At the recent Google Marketing Live event, the tech giant outlined expanded artificial intelligence systems for digital ads.
Jun 3, 2026
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Internet
AI-generated images are widespread on social media. Starting in August 2026, platforms will be required under the EU AI Act to label certain types of such content. A study by CISPA researcher Sandra Höltervennhoff investigates ...
Jun 1, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Surveys and polls help societies understand what people think about issues in politics, health, education and much more. But fewer people these days tend to respond, so pollsters have to reach out more widely, which raises ...
May 27, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Global society makes billions of images and uploads hundreds of thousands of hours of video on the internet every day. The problem is, some of this content is misleading or downright wrong. And when it's in visual form, it ...
May 26, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Online shoppers could one day face fewer misleading fake reviews thanks to a newly tested AI-powered detection system developed by researchers at the University of East London.
May 21, 2026
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Security
Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., has questions. When the professor and interim chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering saw reports in the media positing that scientific literature ...
May 20, 2026
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Internet
Online platforms often fail to act on reports of non-consensual intimate images submitted through safety or abuse systems—but remove the same material far more quickly when it is framed as a copyright violation, according ...
May 19, 2026
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Internet
You're trying to book concert tickets before they sell out. You click the link and before you can make the payment, you're asked to identify traffic lights, bicycles or blurry crosswalks in a grid of tiny images.
May 15, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated question: What is writing?
May 14, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
There was something a bit off about a speech at one of my recent colleague's retirements. It was beautifully written, very generously worded and the pacing was impeccable. And yet, I hate to say it, it was utterly lifeless.
May 13, 2026
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