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Facebook Is Filled With AI-Generated Garbage—and Older Adults Are Being Tricked
Experts say it won’t be long until we’re all vulnerable.
As AI-generated content proliferates online and clutters social media feeds, you may have noticed more images cropping up that invoke the uncanny valley effect—relatively normal scenes that also carry surreal details like excess fingers or gibberish words. Cracking this code is particularly important because tech companies like Google tend to overlook older users during internal testing, Björn Herrmann, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Toronto who studies the impact of aging on communication, told The Daily Beast. In a study published last month in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists showed 201 participants a mix of AI- and human-generated images and gauged their responses based on factors like age, gender, and attitudes toward technology.
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