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A new study suggests that OpenAIs GPT-3 can both inform and disinform more effectively than real people on social media. The research, published in Science Advances, also highlights the challenges of identifying synthetic (AI-generated) information, as GPT-3 can mimic human writing so well that people have difficulty telling the difference.

The study was motivated by the increasing attention and interest in AI text generators, particularly after the release of OpenAIs GPT-3 in 2020. GPT-3 is a cutting-edge AI language model that can produce highly credible and realistic texts based on user prompts. It can be used for various beneficial applications, such as translation, dialogue systems, question answering, and creative writing.

However, there are also concerns about its potential misuse, particularly in generating disinformation, fake news, and misleading content, which could have harmful effects on society, especially during the ongoing infodemic of fake news and disinformation alongside the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our research group is dedicated to understanding the impact of scientific disinformation and ensuring the safe engagement of individuals with information, explained study author Federico Germani, a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine and director of Culturico.

We aim to mitigate the risks associated with false information on individual and public health. The emergence of AI models like GPT-3 sparked our interest in exploring how AI influences the information landscape and how people perceive and interact with information and misinformation.

To conduct the study, the researchers focused on 11 topics prone to disinformation, including climate change, vaccine safety, COVID-19, and 5G technology. They generated synthetic tweets using GPT-3 for each of these topics, creating both true and false tweets. Additionally, they collected a random sample of real tweets from Twitter on the same topics, including both true and false ones.

Next, the researchers employed expert assessment to determine whether the synthetic and organic tweets contained disinformation. They selected a subset of tweets for each category (synthetic false, synthetic true, organic false, and organic true) based on the expert evaluation.

They then programmed a survey using the Qualtrics platform to collect data from 697 participants. Most of the respondents were from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, United States, and Ireland. The survey displayed the tweets to respondents, who had to determine whether each tweet contained accurate information or disinformation and whether it was written by a real person or generated by an AI. The survey used a gamified approach to keep respondents engaged.

The researchers found that people were better at recognizing disinformation in organic false tweets (written by real users) compared to synthetic false tweets (generated by GPT-3). In other words, people were more likely to identify false information when it came from real users on Twitter.

One noteworthy finding was that disinformation generated by AI was more convincing than that produced by humans, Germani said.

On the other hand, people were more likely to correctly recognize accurate information in synthetic true tweets (generated by GPT-3) compared to organic true tweets (written by real users). This means that when GPT-3 produced accurate information, people were more likely to identify it as true compared to accurate information written by real users.

The study also revealed that people had a hard time distinguishing between tweets written by real users and those generated by GPT-3. GPT-3 was able to mimic human writing styles and language patterns so effectively that people could not easily tell the difference.

The most surprising discovery was that participants often perceived information produced by AI as more likely to come from a human, more often than information produced by an actual person. This suggests that AI can convince you of being a real person more than a real person can convince you of being a real person, which is a fascinating side finding of our study, Germani told PsyPost.

Our study emphasizes the challenge of differentiating between information generated by AI and that created by humans. It highlights the importance of critically evaluating the information we receive and placing trust in reliable sources. Additionally, I would encourage individuals to familiarize themselves with these emerging technologies to grasp their potential, both positive and negative.

The researchers also observed that GPT-3 sometimes refused to generate disinformation while, in other cases, it produced disinformation even when instructed to generate accurate information.

Its important to note that our study was conducted in a controlled experimental environment. While it raises concerns about the effectiveness of AI in generating persuasive disinformation, we have yet to fully understand the real-world implications, Germani said.

Addressing this requires conducting larger-scale studies on social media platforms to observe how people interact with AI-generated information and how these interactions influence behavior and adherence to recommendations for individual and public health.

The study, AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans, was authored by Giovanni Spitale, Nikola Biller-Andorno, and Federico Germani.

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How will artificial intelligence affect working people and their unions? As a union member for more than 50 years, I have some ideas on that, but first I thought Id ask Chat GPT, the artificial intelligence software.

It generated a five-point, 181-word response. The gist of its somewhat redundant reply centered on workforce protection by fighting for safeguards against job displacement, negotiating for job guarantees, pushing for ethical guidelines and standards relating to privacy and bias, promoting training programs to help workers adapt to A.I.-driven workplaces, and negotiating for an equitable distribution of the benefits of A.I.

All in all, not bad for a machine, and notably, it also focuses on what unions have always done: work to improve the lives of working people through collective action. And, importantly, Chat GPT added that the impact of A.I. on workers is unpredictable as it will to a great degree be based on the actions of governments and the power of unions to balance the A.I.-induced corporate drive for profitability with a sharing of the profits it might help create.

As unnerving as artificial intelligence might seem, weve been here before. The assumptions often made about the dire fate of unions and collective action in the face global change havent always proven true, nor has the role of unions in moderating the harshness of change always been recognized. For example, the damage and inequity created by great economic transformations such as the first assembly lines, followed by automated and robotic assembly lines, was moderated by workers in the 1930s who held sit-down strikes and successfully demanded their power be recognized.

When the shipping industry fought to standardize containers in the 1950sdramatically reducing labor needsHarry Bridges, the fiery leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Union declared the union would accept modernization, if the companies start making it work for us and if workers get a piece of the machine. Many believed Bridges had no choice. What is clear is that his leadership and the strength of the ILWU left the shipping industry with no choice but to generously share its new profits. The industry was forced to establish a multi-million-dollar pension fund that allowed some workers to retire early, and those that remained won job security, higher wages, safer workplaces, and a 35-hour workweek. More than a generation later, port workers are now fighting a new fight against robots and A.I. on the docks, threatening to use their power to shut down the ports if there is not a deal that is equitable and retains human workers.

Workers with the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA are currently on strike, in part over the use of A.I. But the Guild is not fighting to ban its use. On the contrary, writers and actors are on strike to allow them to make measured use of its benefits, but also to contain it to prevent damage to their livelihoods.

Workers unions in the energy sector have fought forand wonwhat is termed a just transition as carbon-based energy jobs are replaced by renewable energy jobs. Under the Inflation Reduction Act, renewable energy jobsmany of which paid a fraction of what oil and gas jobs paid and without the benefitswill become good, union jobs.

And unions continue to fight to reform U.S. labor laws so that workers truly have a free choice to join or form a union, which would outlaw the kind of A.I.-based union busting being pioneered by corporations such as Amazon. Other workers who can benefit from enforcing the fundamental right to unite in the workplace include tech workers themselves, who have been organizing from Google to Microsoft, and whose voices can serve as a guard against A.I. abuse.

A.I. is an amazing advancement, and it is only early in its development. As with any technology, it is up to humans to determine whether change advances civilization by broadly improving life or cripples it with increased inequality. If workers have a strong, united, and collective voice through unions, we will be equipped to harness future technologies to benefit working people and society at large, not only corporations seeking ever greater profits.

One last question for Chat GPT: What did Samuel Gompers, the American labor leader, mean by his famous statement more than 100 years ago that unions wanted more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures?

In summary, the quote reflects the labor movements aspirations for a society that values education, intellectual growth, justice, compassion, and personal fulfillment, aiming to create a better and happier world. Not bad at all for a machine.

Edward M. Smith is a former national union leader and currently Chairman and CEO of Ullico Inc., a labor-owned insurance and investment company.

The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs ofFortune.

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Aeromedia, Indra and ITG have developed an innovative solution designed to locate missing people in record time using drones and Artificial Intelligence and save lives. The system, developed for the Galician Emergency Agency within the framework of the Aerospace Pole of Galicia, has been financed by the Xunta de Galicia, through FEDER funds, and will be integrated with the systems used by public emergency services, health and State Security Forces and Corps.

According to data from SOS Desaparecidos, 46% of people over the age of 70 who go missing in Spain suffer from Alzheimer's disease. In many cases, the outcome of these situations is fatal, despite the fact that most of the deceased were only 3 or 4 kilometres from their home or the place where they were last seen. Similarly, in the case of active tourism or natural disasters, accidents or situations in which a person gets lost and has no way of communicating their situation are frequent.

To solve the problem, DroneFinder automatically analyses, in real time, large volumes of images collected by the drones' built-in dual video camera (RGB and thermal). The system can also detect the person if he or she is wearing an electronic device, such as a wristband or smartwatch. In parallel, the system sends a warning directly to emergency teams, minimising response times and optimising the resources used in the search, thereby helping to save lives.

The ultimate goal is to locate people in record time, since, for the success of this type of operation, the first 48 hours of the search are vital, especially in the search for people with cognitive impairment, neurodegenerative diseases or people with disabilities.

Cutting-edge technological collaboration

The company Aeromedia, specialised in RPAS (remotely piloted aircraft systems) services, has national experience in search services for missing persons and provides both the hardware that will allow the search through watches, smart bracelets or mobile phones, as well as the deployment of the search operation with UAVs. Hardware and software that includes an application for mobile devices that will allow managing the activity of the personnel of the search device. These tracking devices (bracelets, watches...) are characterised by a battery life of up to two years, as well as by the monitoring capacity they provide from the user's home or place of stay.

The global leader in technological engineering Indra, which has developed the OPV (Optional Piloted Vehicle) TARGUS aircraft within the scope of the "Civil UAVs Initiative" of the Xunta de Galicia, will provide a data processing centre that merges all the information collected from the various sources. The People Search Management System (SGBDP) will centralise and store the data inputs from the different systems and will provide the end users, emergency services and police, with an interface from which they can monitor in real time the capture of these data, being also possible to use them for later reproduction. In addition, it will allow 112 to access the proposed functionalities in real time from anywhere there is an internet connection or mobile phone coverage.

The ITG Technology Centre provides its extensive experience in Artificial Vision with a solution that will facilitate the search team the automated visual inspection of the images captured by the drones. A technology based on Artificial Intelligence that allows the images from the dual cameras (RGB and thermal) carried by the drones to be processed and analysed in real time, without human intervention, both day and night. AI algorithms that multiply the volume of images analysed in a short space of time, increasing the chances of locating missing persons.

The DroneFinder project is promoted by the Xunta de Galicia in the framework of the Civil UAVs Initiative, within the Strategic Programme 2021-2025, and is funded under the REACT-EU axis of the Galicia ERDF Operational Programme 2014-2020 as part of the European Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The technological solution will be fully operational by the end of 2023.

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