Great conversation with @tainalon.bsky.social and @felixsimon.bsky.social at #ijf26 on "When seeing is no longer believing: perils and possibilities in a world of synthetic media" with our differing viewpoints on scope, societal implications, and what to do
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Promotional card for the International Journalism Festival 2026 (XX Edition, Free Entry), Perugia, Italy, 15–18 April. Session: "When Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Perils and Possibilities in a World of Synthetic Media." Speakers: Sam Gregory, Tai Nalon, Felix M. Simon. Saturday 18 April. #ijf26. Website: journalismfestival.com.
📌 As generative AI blurs the line between real and fake, fears of a collapse in trust are everywhere. Yet audiences still believe some sources. This panel explores what has really changed in the age of synthetic media — and who is responsible for protecting truth.
"We don’t need to give up on the ability to discern what is real from synthetic. But we do need to act”
Wise words from Sam Gregory, highlighting the “failure of political will at the senior levels” of big tech companies to enforce effective content labelling
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“We don’t need to give up on the ability to discern what is real from synthetic,” he said. “But we do need to act fast.” In @theguardian.com I pointed to the tech companies failure to act, as Meta's own Oversight Board just also said about C2PA implementation www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Sora “normalized a world in which people are really uncertain about what they are seeing in their timelines both when it matters & when it doesn’t matter.. whether it’s casual comedy…or conflict footage from Iran. The consequences will reverberate even if the app is gone” The Verge archive.ph/AqRO7
Sora “normalized a world in which in people are really uncertain about what they are seeing in their timelines both when it matters & when it doesn’t matter… whether it’s casual comedy… or conflict footage from Iran. The consequences will reverberate even if the app is gone.”
@samgregory.bsky.social
Closing it down... but not before they normalized likeness theft, AI slop at scale, and generated plenty of videos to confuse and deceive people in the Iran conflict 😑
OpenAI is shutting down Sora. But the damage is done: normalized AI slop, eroded trust in what's real, detection inadequate, provenance tools still MIA without senior company leadership, and shameful normalization of likeness theft. Thanks, but no thanks, Sam
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Rule 1: Never trust a good foot pic. It could be AI.
An AI avatar as the apotheosis of fantasy (and driver to monetized synthetic foot pics). I talked to @drewharwell.com at the Washington Post about Jessica, the MAGA dream girl.
Hyper-realistic AI both to create fantasy images that illustrate people's hopes, and where the wish that something is fake finds a ready-made access point via poor forensic analysis: Talked with Archis Chowdhury @ Boom Live on implications of Netanyahu AI or not vids www.boomlive.in/explainers/n...
The second organised by myself, featuring @samgregory.bsky.social where we will look at what has and hasn’t changed with the arrival of AI capable of creating highly realistic synthetic media (Details here: www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...)
article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court
continuation of article 8bis
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
The irony is stark: a private AI company is holding the line on guardrails against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons—while the federal government pushes to remove them. After revoking Biden's AI safety policies, the Trump administration is now pressuring Anthropic to abandon its own.
I told myself it wasn’t as much of a shit ending to my first time as Survey Security Consultant While Not Pretending to be a Human and/or Faking the Existence of a Human Supervisor as it could have been.
watching what's happening to Pinterest feels like a glimpse at the immediate future for much of the internet. AI moderation knocking down posts, people unable to talk to human beings, a flood of AI content, and hand drawn posts mislabeled as AI
🔔 Join us for a timely digital security training on how to protect your devices, sources and reporting material from adversaries, particularly in the face of physical interception, sponsored by @newsguild.org.
🗓️ Thursday, Feb. 26, 2 pm ET/11 am PT
RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It's a paradoxical moment: a fog of doubt settles over our AI-slop timelines, yet bystander video in Minneapolis powerfully reaffirms witnessing. I talked to the @nytimes about the world we're in. Fortunately, this is exactly what @witnessorg.bsky.social prepares for.
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You can now chat with MrBeast & Snoop Dogg in ChatGPT
If I ever ask for this call the police
"We are not built to watch murders on our phones…then casually scroll to a job update." @baratunde began
Then...how to witness ICE/CBP violence, discern real from fake, and build archives of accountability despite AI. It's our work @witnessorg.bsky.social
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How it started. How it's going.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
Bargain $750 if you're a nonprofit 🤣
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
SRT’s and BORTAC’s roles in putting down protests in 2020 and since President Donald Trump retook power last January have been referenced in several civil suits alleging wanton abuses and civil rights violations by the tactical units.
+1 @maddow.bsky.social: @witnessorg.bsky.social and others' expert, clear advice on how to film ICE and what to do next (more resources on our site on filming, archiving, accountability)
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