Magazine: Fall 2020 | Volume 27, No. 1
With this issue of XRDS, we wanted to address the pressing concern of fake news. Included are reflections on the work computer scientists are doing to alleviate misinformation. As well as articles highlighting what happens when government regulation and technical solutions stop working. Here's a hint: Our role as responsible citizens begins.
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SECTION: Features
How to tame your chatbot
The best way to stop a bad chatbot spreading misinformation may be a good chatbot providing facts. But how can we deploy these bots on short notice without compromising quality and user privacy?
By Fiete Lüer
Detecting deepfakes using crowd consensus
Deepfake videos are becoming more and more believable, outpacing fake detection methods. As a research community, we must embrace a wider variety of detection tactics to keep up and quell the spread of misinformation.
By Eleanor Tursman
OpenGPT-2
When OpenAI released its billion-parameter language model GPT-2, their attempts to withhold the model inspired two researchers to use open research practices to combat the misuse of machine learning.
By Vanya Cohen, Aaron Gokaslan
The bad news game
Given the rising amount of fake news on the web, it is imperative to understand whether people can become immune to fake news and what steps can help achieve this goal. This interview presents insights into the definition of fake news, current research, and the future of fake news education.
By Diane Golay
An 'infodemic' infested world under lockdown---
With a sea of misinformation surrounding COVID-19, fake news and rumors on social media have run amok. We need to flatten the curve of this infodemic and flatten the curve of COVID-19.
By Ankuran Dutta
The context in discourse analysis
Inquiring about discourse can be an activity that is as specific as addressing its structure or as wide as analyzing discourse as an expression of culture considering its context in its minimal version as "what surrounds" or in the complexities of "to weave together."
By Germán Alejandro Miranda Díaz
DEPARTMENT: Labz
Simon Fraser University's discourse processing lab, Burnaby, BC, Canada
By Bhargavi Jahagirdar