Misinformation

…writing raises questions about misinformation, academic integrity and the authenticity of digital content. Although detection has attracted substantial machine-learning research, the talk argues that its statistical foundations remain underdeveloped. Zhu presents recent work on principled, computationally efficient detection methods, including approaches reported at NeurIPS and ICLR. An interactive demonstration accompanies the research, illustrating on

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to new forms of misinformation, including highly realistic “deepfake” synthetic media. We conduct three experiments to investigate how and why retail investors react to deepfake financial news. Results from the first two experiments provide evidence that investors use a “realism heuristic,” responding more intensely to audio and video deepfakes as their perceptual realism increases. In the third experiment, we introduce an intervention to prompt analytical thinking, varying whether participants make analytical judgments about credibility or i

…report more specifically mentions that misinformation is capable of disrupting elections and exacerbating societal polarization. Since photojournalistic images are treated as a proof, as a self-contained piece of evidence that an event has happened (Garry et al., 2007), finding out which factors influence the perception of the authenticity of a picture is crucial. We collected authenticity perception, political views, and emotional response to im

In this talk I will present our recent behavioural and neuroscience research on how the brain motivates itself to form particular beliefs and why it does so. I will propose that the utility of a belief is derived from the potential outcomes associated with holding it. Outcomes can be internal (e.g., positive/negative feelings) or external (e.g., material gain/loss), and only some are dependent on belief accuracy. We show that belief change occurs when the potential outcomes of holding it alters, for example when moving from a safe environment to a threatening environment. Our findings yield pr