How do we know what we see and hear are real? Mis-, mal- and disinformation are the biggest challenges communicators and society as a whole are facing today. On today's show, Axel Ebermann, a guest lecturer with a long career in visual storytelling, leads us through his research on Deep Fakes and Synthetic Media, a growing subcategory of misinformation.
Listen to learn more about his research and how to prepare for this new challenge.
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Episode Resources
View on YouTube to see the visual examples presented in the interview.
Keep up with Axel Ebermann on LinkedIn.
Text-to-Speech example, DALL.E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
This Person Does Not Exist: https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en
NewsGuard: https://www.newsguardtech.com/
Synthesia: https://www.synthesia.io/
How misinformation sparked a coup in Gabon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/13/how-sick-president-suspect-video-helped-sparked-an-attempted-coup-gabon/
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