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Addie Robertson

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“Yeah, I think that the oversight board, what it tends to do, that is maybe comparable to the Supreme Court is do sophisticated outside thinking about what does a consistent moderation framework look like. But the Supreme Court in real life does not adjudicate every single complaint that you have. You have a whole bunch of other courts. Facebook doesn't have really those other courts. Facebook has a gigantic army of moderators who don't always necessarily even see its policies. Yeah, it's this very macro level we're going to do the big thinking.”
2024-02-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the platformers are getting tired of this is worth talking about for one second longer. There was a huge rush of how do we make ultra sophisticated content moderation systems? And I think the pinnacle of that rush was Facebook setting up its oversight board, which is effectively a Supreme Court of content moderation decisions. And that was seen as, okay, Facebook is as big as a state. It has the revenue of a state. It's a government now. It's going to have some government-like functions to regulate speech on its platforms. That didn't pan out, right? Like the oversight board exists. It moves very slowly. It's, I think, hard for the average Facebook user or average Instagram user to think there's a moderating force on content moderation on this platform. It's the same as it ever was from the user perspective, as far as I can tell.”
2024-02-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do we kick Trump off social networks? These were the locus of debate. And now it's 2024, and we have, in some ways, I think a little bit of a hangover from 2020 where platforms are really tired of policing this. And so they're dealing with, all right, how do we renegotiate this for the 2024 election? And then you have this whole other layer of generative AI imagery, whether or not you want to technically call it deepfakes, like an open question. then there are all the layers of how that gets disseminated and whether that turbocharges a bunch of issues that already existed.”
2024-02-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We've had, I think, about three major in the U.S. presidential election cycles where disinformation was a huge issue. 2016, where there was a lot of discussion in the aftermath about, all right, was there foreign meddling in the election? Were people being influenced by these coordinated campaigns? There was 2020 where Deepfakes technically did exist, but generative AI tools were just not as sophisticated. They were not as easy to use. They were not nearly as prevalent. And so there was a huge conversation about what role do social platforms play in preventing general manipulated information. And there was, in a lot of ways, a huge crackdown, there was the entire issue of stop the steel. There are these large movements that are trying to just lie about who won the election, what do we do. There were questions about”
2024-02-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“AI makes it easy to lie more and lie faster. So today, Verge Policy Editor Addie Robertson joins the show to discuss how AI might supercharge disinformation in an election that's already as contentious as any in our lifetimes. And what exactly might be done about it? Mattie Robertson. How are you doing? You've been tracking this conversation for a very long time. It does seem like there's more nuance in the disinformation conversation than before. It's not just Russia made people like Trump, which is, I think, where we were in 2016. Can you just give a background? What's the shape of how people are thinking of disinformation right now?”
2024-02-29 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT