Generative AI at Work / Unit 2 GAI 038 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Information Integrity
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The idea
NIST's eighth risk is to information integrity: generative AI lowers the cost of producing misinformation, which is unintentional, and disinformation, which is deliberate, at scale.
In practice
In May twenty twenty-three a synthetic image of an explosion near the Pentagon spread online, and the stock market dipped briefly before it was exposed.
Where people slip
Realistic fakes, called deepfakes, erode trust in genuine evidence too.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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