The reason this is important and timely is because the messaging around these tools implicitly suggests there is an air of authority and integrity it would be impossible for them to have given that no journalists have examined and analyzed the mechanisms of these tools at any stage of their development.

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[–] 15 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Why on earth would a journalist need to have input on authentication tools??

Surely this would be more suited for a cybersecurity expert?

Not that I’d trust an AI-based authentication system anyway.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The post title and body don't make this clear, but "AI authentication tools" in this context refers to tools that verify the authenticity of journalistic image and video media to confirm they're not AI-generated.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    It’s also not a commonly-used term. “AI authentication” mostly refers to using machine-learning AI as an authentication method (eg image recognition, behavior observation, etc.)

    This sounds more like just “fact checking”.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Exhibit A:) Liberal Arts education > STEM education

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Because getting a liberal arts education means you use input from people unqualified to provide that input?

    Getting your BA doesn't qualify you to do code security reviews. Most journalists get that information from people who are qualified to do so.

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