Verified By BOOM 100 (Special Edition)

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It’s been 2 years since I wrote the first edition of Verified by BOOM, helping you navigate the ever-changing world of information and mis/disinformation. A little overwhelmed as I say this: You’re reading the 100th edition and this is a special one!

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A Quick Recap

🔖 In the previous editions, we have taken you through multiple tools and techniques of verifying online misinformation. Here’s a quick recap.

• Image verification: Upload the image and perform a reverse image search using Google, Yandex, TinEye, Bing, among others.

• Video verification: In simple terms, video is a combination of several images put in motion. Divide the video into different keyframes using InVID verification plugin (or screenshot different frames) and perform a reverse image search on them.

• Geolocation: Use Google Maps and Google Earth to enter the street view of a particular location.

• Archiving: Preserve online URLs before they are deleted or edited using archive.is, wayback machine, ghostarchive.org, among others.

• AI Detection: Use AI or Not and Hive to find out whether an image has been generated using artificial intelligence (AI). P.S. Yes, all of them are free to use.

Trends To Watch Out For

🔖 Excessive use of AI voice clones to spread disinformation since they cost little to nothing to create.

• Experts told BOOM’s Karen Rebelo they expect deepfakes in India to get more sophisticated as generative deepfake algorithms are developed for Indian languages.

• Use of AI in satire by politicians to stay in the grey area and escape the ambit of fact-checking.

Glossary

🔖 Here are some definitions that will help you use the correct terminology the next time you debunk misinformation.

• Misinformation: any false or inaccurate information, presented to you as a fact.

• Disinformation: any false or inaccurate information, intentionally/ deliberately presented to you as a fact.

• Fake news: Is this really a term you should be using? No, too vague!

• Morphed: Altering a part or whole of any image/video with an intention to mislead.

• Cropped: Cutting out a small portion out of a larger video and sharing without full context.

• AI-generated: An image, video, audio or text created using artificial intelligence usually by entering a text prompt of the required output.

• Deepfake (deep learning + fake): A video or recording that has been altered using artificial intelligence and machine learning to create synthetic media that appears to be real to create the likeness of an individual. (Synthetic content is on a spectrum and they don’t always fit in clear categories)

• TL;DR: Every AI-generated visual is not a deepfake. Every deepfake is AI-generated.

🅱️ Recommends

📖 Today’s recommendation is: Watch out for false claims of deepfakes, and actual deepfakes, this election year

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