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Deepfakes and democracy: a case for technological mediation

Introduction Recent successes in the production of so-called “deep fakes” sparked both the imagination and the fears of many. The word “deepfake” is a contraction of “deep learning” and “fake”, indicating the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to synthesize images and videos that are not real, while simultaneously not or barely being recognizable …
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Evgeny vs. the internet

📖 https://archives.cjr.org/cover_story/evgeny_vs_the_internet.php

↬ But with Morozov, the audience is always left to sort out where the critique ends and the joke begins. “I’m very conscious of what I’m doing,” he says. “I’m destroying the internet-centric world that has produced me. If I’m truly successful, I should become irrelevant.”

The Syllabus

📖 https://the-syllabus.com/

↬ Awesome initiative from Evgeny Morozov: “An eclectic weekly selection of new academic articles, essays, talks, podcasts, and more.” You can compile your own weekly syllabus!

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

📖 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/

↬ That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.

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