Digital Cultures Research node: Bryce Newell together with Jens-Erik Mai and Sille Obelitz Søe

Guest speaker Bryce Newell (University of Oregon) together with Jens-Erik Mai and Sille Obelitz Søe (University of Copenhagen). Bryce will present and Sille and Jens-Erik will join in on the discussion.

Abstract: 

Regulating Synthetic Targets

Generative artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic media, and deepfake content represent important emerging topics in the study of media and information studies. Legal scholars and legislators are also grappling with how to regulate the design and deployment of generative AI technologies and the synthetic media and deepfake content they produce. This includes “deepfakes”—or AI-generated content that falsely depicts real people saying or doing things they never said or did—as well as other forms of AI-generated images, sound, and video. I examine how drawing from theories of information and data from the information sciences can help us improve how we understand synthetic data and synthetic media and how we regulate the production and use of synthetic media, with a primary focus on how law and regulation can better protect children.