Global Views on AI and Disinformation
Telling fact from fiction is harder than ever.
In the Age of AI, it’s pretty easy to get duped by a deepfake video or text written by ChatGPT.
Artificial intelligence has made telling what’s real from what’s AI-generated difficult and many are feeling nervous about the nascent technology and how it will be used by humans.
AI aside, adults around the world are already pretty skeptical of a range of companies, professions and institutions these days - tthe new edition of Ipsos’ Global Trustworthiness Monitor finds an abysmal 14%, on average across 31 countries, think politicians generally are trustworthy and just 25% think journalists are trustworthy.
Whether the increasing use of emerging tech will send trust levels even lower in the years ahead remains to be seen.
What we’ve seen already is when seismic events happen, from former U.S. President Donald Trump claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to the Israel-Hamas war this month, misinformation and deepfakes spread like wildfire online.
Below, we look at how people across 29 countries are feeling about fake news, lying and misinformation in these tense times.
New Zealanders stand out for being amongst the most likely of the countries surveyed to believe that artificial intelligence is making it easier to generate very realistic fake news stories and images, and that this will make misinformation and disinformation worse.
