Dr. Melvin L. DeFleur Distinguished Lecture Series: Seeing is Not Believing: Deepfakes, AI Images, and the Psychology of Detection

The rapid growth of technology that can synthesize images, video, and voice now allows users to generate realistic fake photos and videos. Although these visuals can have legitimate uses, they can also be used to manipulate people's perceptions of real-world facts, and to promote disinformation. Photo- and video-realistic fake content challenges the brain’s baseline assumptions about what constitutes evidence, and the evolving nature of digital media means we are all developing our own rules and shortcuts for understanding how to separate truth from fiction. In this research talk, Dr. Bartosz Wojdynski will present the results of recent experiments on how consumers view, evaluate, and classify fake images and videos, and how consumers attempt to draw lines between fake and genuine visual content. He will also discuss the promises and pitfalls of media literacy and technological solutions to the issues posed by fake visual content.Presented by Bartosz Wojdynski, Ph.D., Director of the Digital Media & Cognition LabFollowing the lecture, there will be a reception in COM 209 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

When 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Location COM 101, 640 Commonwealth Ave