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Misinformation Around PM's Degree & Kejriwal's IIT Admission
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👋 Hey there! Have you noticed all the cool AI-generated images floating around the internet lately? But here's the million-dollar question: how can you tell if it's a real photo or not? Well, don't worry because we've got you covered in this week's edition of Verified by BOOM. Let's dive in!
🔖 Who would have thought we’ll see Mark Zuckerberg walking the runway in flamboyant clothes and not in his basic grey shirt, or see images of Pope Francis parading the streets wearing a Balenciaga-style white puffer jacket?
All you have to do now is visualise and you have it—thanks to AI-generated images.
🤔 But, how do you identify whether it's an AI-generated image or not? BOOM's Surbhi Sharma spoke to Sam Gregory, human rights advocate, technologist, and executive director at witness.org who said:
There is a need to slow down on clicking the reposting or retweeting button when the intent and context of a piece of media was unclear
The SIFT media literacy acronym is a useful way to remember this: 🛑 Stop🕵️♂️ Investigate the source🔍 Find trusted coverage and 👣 Trace the original, rather than let our emotions or first impressions lead us.
Finding the source of the image is of utmost importance and can be done within minutes using a reverse image search or Google lens.
We should remember that the bulk of deceptive images is still ‘shallowfakes’ - mis-contextualized or edited images, not deepfakes or AI-generated images. So our approach to suspicious images should aim to deal with both.
📢 Event Alert
On 18 April, the Software Freedom law Center (SFLC) is organising panel discussions on Software Patents and Digital India Act at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
🚨 A Grand Theft From Netflix, Paytm, Amazon: What Was Stolen?
🔖 Cyberabad police in Hyderabad unraveled a case involving theft of personal data of about 67 crore individuals and organisations. Read this story by Inkeshaf Ahmed to know how large the scale of the theft was.
🚫 No Musk Or Gadkari: Was The Start-Up Event In Noida A Hoax?
🔖 Meanwhile, a three-day long event beginning 24 March in Uttar Pradesh had promised budding entrepreneurs a platform to connect with potential investors and industry experts for funding.
The lineup of speakers included Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Masayoshi Son along with venture capitalists from Sequoia and Tiger Global.
However, it was found that there was no Tesla, Google or SoftBank’s CEO at the event. Read this story by BOOM's Kaisar Andrabi to know what happened at the event.
✔️ Twitter Legacy Verified Accounts Still Have Their Blue Ticks, But With A Twist
🔖 Twitter's subscription programme continued to baffle people when on April 1, legacy verified accounts did not lose their blue ticks as had been announced by Twitter in March.
But, there is a change. Read this explainer by BOOM's Hera Rizwan to find out.
👨❤️👨 Same-Sex Marriage In India: Why Is It Not Legal Yet?
🔖 India has opposed same-sex marriage suggesting that it is against the idea of a family. But the queer community argues that the demand is for equality.
BOOM's Aisha Siddiqui spoke to some queer people who explain why India should legalise same-sex marriage.
🔖 Social media posts claiming former Gujarat University Vice-Chancellor Professor KS Shastri, whose signature is seen on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Master's degree, passed away in 1981, two years before the certificate was issued, is false.
🔖 Social media is rife with claims suggesting Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal did not clear the competitive Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for his admission into the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and was admitted through corporate quota.
🅱️ Recommends
📖 This week's recommendation is: How to think about Deepfakes and emerging Manipulation Technologies by Sam Gregory.
A handy article dealing with the many ways deepfakes have begun infiltrating our internet consumption practices and what journalists and responsible internet users (not mutually exclusive necessarily) can do to counter their ill-effects.
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