“Since the quality of AI deception and the ways you can do it keeps improving and shifting this is an important element to keep the policy dynamic as AI and usage gets more pervasive or more deceptive, or people get more accustomed to it,” Mr Gregory said.

He added focusing on labelling fake posts would be an effective solution for some content, such as videos which have been recycled or recirculated from a previous event, but he was sceptical about the effectiveness of automatically labelling content manipulated using emerging AI tools.

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    Are there any social scientists on lemmy? Have we actually studied the effects of labeling misinformation as opposed to removing it? Does labeling misinformation actually stop it from spreading and being believed, or does it reinforce conspiratorial thinking? This is not a rhetorical question - I genuinely don’t know.

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      One thing we know for certain is that handing the government the ability to mandate control over our information flow is one of the primary tools by which fascism took hold in mid-20th century Europe.

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    Democrats always lose because they fight with one arm behind their back while the Republicans use fire.

    Meta is not going to do the right thing. Fight fire with fire and make deepfakes of Trump too and all his ilk