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Shaping the Future of the Internet
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Air Date 3/8/2023
Today, we take a look at some of the emerging elements of technology and regulation that will likely shape the next era of the internet and our relationship to it. For today, these will include synthetic relationships with artificial intelligence, fake audio and video virtually indistinguishable from reality that will facilitate disinformation, reinterpreting Section 230 for a new era of internet content and the ongoing struggle to regulate social media platforms.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: What is ChatGPT, the AI software taking the internet by storm - BBC News - Air Date 1-15-23
While its popularity is soaring amid reports that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is closing in on a $10bn investment from Microsoft, there are fears the technology could cause more harm than good.
Ch. 2: Synthetic Humanity AI & Whats At Stake - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 2-16-23
In this episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan and Aza reach beyond the moment to talk about this powerful new AI, and the new paradigm of humanity and computation we're about to enter.
Ch. 3: What are deepfakes and are they dangerous? - Start Here, Al Jazeera English - Air Date 6-21-21
What are deepfakes? How are they made? And should they worry us?
Ch. 4: Creating a lie detector for deepfakes - CBS Sunday Morning - Air Date 1-29-23
Adobe and Microsoft have teamed up to develop new tools for verifying the attributes and history of images and videos on the web.
We speak with Aaron Mackey, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who says Section 230 "powers the underlying architecture" of the internet.
Ch. 6: SCOTUS on the Internet Its Complicated Part 1 - Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 2-25-23
Two big tech cases before the US Supreme Court this week promised justices tackling the thorny issues of content moderation, liability, and internet platforms, but instead delivered confusion and dodges.
Ch. 7: Why Some See Web 3.0 as the Future of the Internet - WSJ - Air Date 2-15-22
Some see Web 3.0 as the next generation of the internet, a decentralized version of the web-based on the blockchain. Here are the key principles behind it, and why skeptics are unconvinced it could scale globally.
Ch. 8: Real Social Media Solutions, Now — with Frances Haugen - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 11-23