When Camille François, a longstanding expert on disinformation, sent an email to her team late last year, many were perplexed. Her message began by raising some seemingly valid concerns: that online disinformation — the deliberate spreading of false narratives typically designed to…
AI algorithms can generate text convincing enough to fool the average human—potentially providing a way to mass-produce fake news, bogus reviews, and phony social accounts. Thankfully, AI can now be used to identify fake text, too. The news: Researchers from Harvard University and the MIT-IBM Watson…
A study from the Aalto Acoustics Lab demonstrates that digital simulations of guitar amplifiers can sound just like the real thing. The implications are that as the software models continue to improve, they can replace traditional analogue guitar amplifiers, which are bulky,…
Social media influencers have become a common tool in a marketeer’s toolbox to reach current and potential customers, building awareness, third-party credibility and purchases. But the rapid growth of this channel (in little over 10 years) has brought with it significant debate…
