When did we start trusting AI-generated rumours?
Art Is Not a Thing

When did we start trusting AI-generated rumours?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202633 min

In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses rumors, power, and the way narratives are crafted, manipulated, and distorted: from the political intrigues of the Mughal court to today’s AI-driven media environment. Our guest is the Indian-American artist and researcher Parag Mital. His recent project, The Game of Whispers, is an interactive and generative artwork that creates a society of autonomous AI characters whose speech, alliances, and conflicts evolve through their actions and interactions. This episode of Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1. Host: Hannah...

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I think this has always been a problem with media. I think it's especially exacerbated and difficult with artificial intelligence because it's much easier to craft narrative. It's much easier to create media.

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We need to effectively have more criticality as a society. Welcome to Art is Not a Thing, the podcast series about art as a practice of critical inquiry, knowledge production and world building. My name is Anna Carabella, part-time host and producer of the podcast.

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For the new season of Art is Not a Thing, we've partnered with Radio Er Eins, one of Austria's leading cultural voices, to bring you the next six episodes. Over the next months, my colleague and radio journalist, Hannah Bauber, will discuss with artists and researchers whose work questions and reimagines our practices in and of the world.

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