Pixel 10 out - 1st smartphone integrating C2PA in native camera app, shows content credentials. Reasons impt: *Reality matters: key to show authenticity of photos *Shows 'how' AI and human mixed in creation + edits *Focuses on recipe: on the how, not the who (privacy!) blog.google/products/pix...

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Griefbots are increasingly common in personal usage while static resurrection deepfakes are used for advocacy and entertainment, but what does it mean to interact with an avatar of a dead person for political advocacy? I talked to BBC about THAT interview by Jim Acosta. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

"AI-generated content related to the Iran-Israel conflict has taken disinformation to an industrial level," @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social and @samgregory.bsky.social write for @carnegieendowment.org on the rise of AI war propaganda.

During the Iran-Israel war, civilians in Iran had little access to trustworthy information. AI deepfakes circulated online exacerbated this situation. What are the implications? @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social and @samgregory.bsky.social explained:

The growing gap between escalating AI deception and analysts' and our ability to detect creates new challenges ➡️ In global conflict ➡️ For civilians struggling to communicate and understand @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social and I discuss in @carnegieendowment.org carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

🆕| There is a growing gap between the sophistication of AI deception and analysts’ ability to detect it, heralding a frightening new phase in global conflict. @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social & @samgregory.bsky.social's latest for @carnegieendowment.org⤵️

The Iran-Israel war signals a major gap between the sophistication of AI deception and analysts’ ability to detect it. @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social & @samgregory.bsky.social explain how the info war is changing and its consequences @carnegieendowment.org ⬇️ carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Glad to collaborate with @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social on this exploration of AI war propaganda in the Israel-Iran war and the gaps growing in our capability to detect and respond carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

For my 1st post on Bluesky I am thrilled to provide you all with little antidote to the doomscroll... the HURIDOCS 2024 Annual Report! In it you will find inspiring stories of using information, data and solid documentation methodologies to support justice and advocacy initiatives around the world.

HURIDOCS matters now more than ever 💪. Our Executive Director shares why building independent, human rights-based digital infrastructure is essential to the future of the human rights movement. 📣 Read her full piece and share it with your network: 🔗 huridocs.org/2025/06/safe...

Baratunde is spot on. He highlights three things from the episode we did: (1) Reality is not sustainable if it always has to be proven. (2) A solution that doesn’t work for everyone is not a solution. (3) We need a food safety system for information newsletter.lifewithmachines.media/p/reality-on...

OK, here's an insightful book on #deepfakes from Brazil. I especially appreciate Diego Abreu's chapter explaining one of the criminalization attempts in Brazil, and the projected impact on youth [in Portuguese]: desvelar.org/enfrentando-... Cc @samgregory.bsky.social

This was one of the most engaging (and bleakest, because the world...) deepfakes, AI and human rights conversations I've had - with @baratunde.com, who is knowledgeable, perceptive and funny and whose pet AI BLAIRwas very snarky.... #ai #lifewithmachines #deepfakes www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucb8...

“Sometimes, the question is not, “What can AI do for you?” Sometimes the question is, “What is the job that needs to be done?”” says ICFJ Knight Fellow Nikita Roy in an interview with the Reuters Institute. Read more: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-expe...

📹 Deceptive AI video: what to know about creation, usage, guardrails and regulation. 📈⚠️ At #Ijf25, I did a rapid-fire update on what's happening with rapid technological advances, deceptive global usages, and emergent guardrails #Sora #Kling #Veo2 #deepfakes www.youtube.com/live/pbA3FEv...

📹 Deceptive AI video: what to know about creation, usage, guardrails and regulation. 📈⚠️ At #Ijf25, I did a rapid-fire update on what's happening with rapid technological advances, deceptive global usages, and emergent guardrails #Sora #Kling #Veo2 #deepfakes www.youtube.com/live/pbA3FEv...

🤖#GenAI in #Elections 2024? @khadijaalam.bsky.social asked me for @restofworld.org "...there were clear faultlines emerging around the capacity of journalists, fact-checkers, and civil society to deal with, detect, and communicate around the deepfake cases they had" restofworld.org/2025/global-...

Here is the list with this year' speakers. Are you a speaker and want to be added to the list? Write to us! #Ijf25 bsky.app/profile/did:...

At #ijf25 I'll also be doing a rapid IRL and live-streamed/recorded state-of-the world on 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨: 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20... Saturday, April 12, 12:35-1:00 PM #deepfakes #AI #detection #sora #kling #runwayml

🥰 Everyone on my wishlist said yes to this IRL and live-streamed #ijf25 panel on Friday: 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝: 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬! Nilesh Christoper, @cleibowicz.bsky.social and Professor Luisa Verdoliva. www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20... #AI #deepfakes

Looking forward to giving the Gruber Distinguished Lecture on Global Justice tomorrow (Monday) at Yale Law, and also talking at Yale Jackson on Tuesday on related themes around fortifying truth, trust and evidence in the face of AI. law.yale.edu/yls-today/ya...

absolutely no shade on @stokel.bsky.social for an incredible scoop but the fact that this is FOIable is an absolute disaster www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

Oh Dolly ❤️https://open.spotify.com/album/2N09fTgE3daKnVujeFEyLD?si=3-J6FCDMRsa9wSCHMae1Yw

How do we think about truth and human rights reality amidst the challenges of AI and many forms/modes of denial? Honoured to give the Gruber Distinguished Lecture later this month at Yale ://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/sam-gregory-deliver-spring-2025-gruber-distinguished-lecture-global-justice

Sind Deepfakes eine reale Gefahr oder nur Panikmache und Hype? Das klären wir auf der #rp25 mit dem Tech-Experten und Menschenrechtsaktivisten Sam Gregory (@samgregory.bsky.social). ➡️ re-publica.com/de/news/rp25...

There's obviously not enough to worry about right now, so I thought, hey why not drop an episode about deepfakes... Fortunately, what @samgregory.bsky.social told me did make feel better. We discuss what technologists can do to help protect our shared reality: open.spotify.com/episode/6HE6...

The Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable and secure database of videos that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

As the effects of climate change unfold worldwide, co-creative initiatives have never been more critical. WORLDING 2025 is an incubator where Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and emerging XR technologies converge to imagine and inspire a just, thriving climate future. 🌱

Are you working on #FreedomOfExpression and #MediaFreedom worldwide? Follow this list 👇: go.bsky.app/HcUHTsF

Peter Fenwick's work was fascinating and he was a lovely human to boot (and an old friend). So glad to see the New York Times publish this obit for him... he was an expert on near-death and end-of-life experiences www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/s...

“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries” Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study. For no particular reason today. doi.org/10.1080/1520...

«… the ambition of making conversational interfaces and generative AI systems unavoidable mediators of human–computer interaction signals a turn from the attention economy ... to the intention economy, whereby commercial and political actors bid on signals that forecast human intent.»

There's too easy a narrative at the end of 2025 about the year of the "AI election apocalypse". I talked to @telliotter @wired.com about how fears were over-hyped of deepfakes and deceptive AI; but now we need to avoid complacency and act as faultlines become visible. www.wired.com/story/the-ye...

What an honor it was to accept the 1st Peabody Global Impact Award on behalf of WITNESS for "tirelessly championing the power of emergent media technologies in defence of human rights around the world' and for how we have "profoundly changed the world for the better" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXNr...

I was on CBS Mornings today to talk about three signal moments in multimodal generative AI this year - Sora, Grok, Sonnet - and explain what they portend for 2025 in terms of delightful creativity (and productivity) and malicious deception and misuse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7U....

OpenAI’s #Sora and #Ai tech like it represent a step change in generative video. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I highlight key risks and fundamental inequitable gaps in access to detection tools. But ... there is time to address this and other threats www.techpolicy.press/openais-sora...