Event Overview
Within our contemporary and vast media landscape, audio-visual content holds a very important place, with photos, images and videos being particularly prevalent, and engaging.
With technological advancements, particularly the rise of generative AI, the line between real and virtual is getting increasingly murkier. The surge of hyper-realistic AI-generated content like deepfakes increasingly reshapes our social, cultural, and political landscapes, while challenging our ability to discern truth from fabrication.
This event serves as a “big reveal” to a report developed over the last year by the the Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), in collaboration with the uOttawa Information Integrity Lab. The report entitled: Visual and Multimodal Disinformation: Analysis, Challenges, Solutions, examines the current state of audio-visual disinformation media, with the aim of investigating the risks posed by deepfakes and other synthetic media, and to identify strategies and countermeasures to deal with this phenomenon.
The panel “Seeing is Misbelieving: Decoding AI Visual Deception will address recent developments in AI generated media and explore various strategies in dealing with them, including: technological advancements in detection and attribution; synthetic media’s economic and political impact; policy frameworks to regulate the creation and dissemination of synthetic content; generative AI and the ethical, legal and normative implications and, content moderation of platforms and free speech.
Moderator: Jennifer Irish
Ms. Irish was appointed as the Director of the Information Integrity Lab of the University of Ottawa in September 2023. The mission of the Lab is to advance
understanding, research and analysis and mitigation measures related to of disinformation and misinformation. She serves concurrently an Associate at University of Ottawa’s Telfer Centre for Executive Leadership, as Program Director of its Executive Security and Intelligence Leadership Certificate. She brings to these positions more than three decades of senior level government experience in foreign affairs, humanitarian and refugee issues, and national and international security -- including in intelligence trends and threat assessment.