Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦
Author, illustrator, and researcher of misinformation and fringe claims. Former Editor (2002–2021) of Junior Skeptic, and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and other science books for kids and adults. https://www.danielloxton.com
- Machine learning more broadly can do wonderful, useful things—but the “killer app” for generative “AI” is automating cheap, industrial scale fraud and disinformation
- Worth a watch, fellow Canadians. Gen AI deepfakes of Carney. Reporting via France’s @france24.com . #cdnpoli
- I can’t vouch for anything about this, but it’s *very* satisfying to watch
- Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers
- Sorry, *loyal* opposition and semi-loyal opposition. I’m not a political scientist, I just have a brother who’s a very good one. You should buy his excellent new book, which taught me this framework! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- This is a good pitch against cynical “censorship industrial complex” claims, but the cliché that the “solution to bad speech is more good speech” has a lot of caveats today. We need to free disinfo research itself from censorship, correct the distorted media landscape, and change misinfo incentives
- Decades of research suggest that authoritarian leaders and their admirers consistently share one thing in common: they twist the truth! Our OP-ED in @time.com today about how to fight harmful misinformation! And the need to speak out against it. More speech, not less! 💪 time.com/7282640/how-...
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- Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦One of the harder lessons for democracies is that it’s nearly impossible to stop well-resourced grifters if they simply don’t care about laws, reputation, or morality. Court orders? Exposés? Fines? Financial judgements? It ultimately comes down to “put them in prison” or “let them get away with it.”
- Reposted by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦When I took research ethics in undergrad, the whole first section was the medical horrors of the mid 1900s that gave rise to modern medical and research ethics. Regulations are good!
- Fewer dolls, and BBQs, and jeans, and pickup trucks, and groceries…
