Techtonic

In this episode, Chris Stokel-Walker talks to Eddie Perez, former Head of Election Integrity at Twitter, about the impact generative AI is likely to have on the 2024 US elections; how deepfakes, fabricated, synthesised audio and social media may be hijacked by bad actors; and what undecided and swing state voters should be looking out for.

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Techtonic is a new podcast from human rights organisation Article 19, hosted by tech reporter Chris Stokel-Walker and produced by Christopher Hooton and Nicola Kelly.

The new series looks at freedom of expression online with a focus on the human impact of Big Tech and social media. We speak to experts around the world, including the former Head of Elections at Twitter, digital rights activists and journalists and we hear from those at the sharp end of AI, deepfake technologies, internet shutdowns and more.

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In this week's episode, we look at the language biases inherent in AI technologies with guests Aliya Bhatia and Gabriel Nicholas from the Center for Democracy and Technology.

Chris, Aliya and Gabriel discuss how large language models work, the underrepresentation of non English-language nations in training data and the effects of an AI trained largely in English. They look at how this might affect communities in India and dialects such as Catalan, where translations are viewed through an anglo-centric lens and the mistakes that commonly get made. And they explore how companies might redress the balance, to ensure a diversity and quality of data which cover different cultural contexts. 

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Hosted by tech reporter Chris Stokel-Walker 
Produced by Christopher Hooton and Nicola Kelly.

Find out more about ARTICLE 19's work and follow us on:
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