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Whack a mole. this has to stop and the only way that it will, i believe, is that if you eliminate the immunity offered by section 230. if enough people with legitimate claims, like i do and the gonzalez family do, if they can bring these folks to justice, that stuff will stop. you know? because they, theyre not doing it, not doing what theyre supposed to do and can do, because they dont have to. >> hands arent forced to do it. you know, google says without its algorithms and protections of secti...

Researchers have spent years warning that text-generation algorithms can spew bias and falsehoods. Tech giants are rushing them into products anyway.

Inappropriate but i dont mean to. >> she was horrified when she found out her face was being used in so-called deep fake . >> i watched a few seconds and i was like no i cannot do this. i cannot watch this. this is too much. it is often hard-core pornography but often usually degrading or aggressive sex acts. >> it is extremely traumatic. >> samantha is one of the first people to report on deep fakes. >> they come from the username of someone on reddit who was taking peoples faces and putting th...

Color, it just compounds a situation that already existed when akin to -- >> what is the answer to that? >> i think there is no one answer. obviously, i think members of society, private individuals have to do their part in condemning a speech and other forms of bullying. these companies have to do more to intervene so that it is less likely that there is bowling going on in the first place. its so that the algorithms are not targeting people who are boo-booed are society and then, i think with ...

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The year that social media sort of hit and became ubiquitous. there is a direct correlation. people have studied this. on balance, i think we would have to conclude, it hasnt been good for teenagers to have this kind of access to social media. >> no, i totally agree with you, and at the end of the day, we can to cry big tech, we can blame politicians, we can blame school initiatives, but at the end of the day, the book stop to the parents, and unless there is some amount of control that comes ov...

Questions, isnt right to kill someone, isnt right to tell a lie or things like that? it gives you kind of a mix of answers. it gives you a mix of answers. sometimes the answers are very noncommittal. these are difficult moral questions. sometimes it gives you interesting answers that clearly reflect the moral views of the people who wrote the algorithms. asking questions about racism, with its ever justified to use a racial slur word. he will tell you its never justified in any circumstances. i ...

And when media becomes part of the cheerleading squad, thats where you have a problem. - one of the challenges has been this tendency to "both sides" everything. theres always this desire to say, "let me try to understand what the other side is saying," and that is a noble, lofty goal. but does that mean you give equal time in trying to understand both arguments? ♪ - it takes so much power out of the hands of citizens when they dont know what to believe. - theres so much active misinformation,...

Suddenly, anyone with a keyboard could be a reporter or convey information, whether it was true or not. as steve bannon said, the zone was flooded, often with lies. - real made-up stories. - in some ways, internet media is bringing back the days when you could just set up with a printing press and put out a paper. ♪ its been quite destructive for political dialogue, in that, immediately, the algorithms push you to people who think like you. - i think what social media did was it allowed people...

Microsoft’s chatty search interface was impressive. But it also served up glitches, ethical dilemmas—and talk of a mysterious “Sydney.”