The Impact of AI-generated Misinformation on Society

An episode from “Humans vs. Machines” from Aventine Research Institute and Pineapple Street Studios.

Misinformation has influenced elections, ruined reputations and fundamentally changed society’s relationship with the truth. Now, large language models like ChatGPT have the potential to create and spread misinformation at a scale we’ve never seen before. As technology improves, the question won’t be, ‘What we can believe in?’ but whether we’ll be able to believe in anything at all.