In a new study, deepfake video clips of movie remakes that don’t actually exist prompted participants to falsely remember the films—but simple text descriptions of the fake movies prompted similar false memory rates. Gillian Murphy of University College Cork, Ireland, and Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on July 6, 2023.

In a new study, deepfake video clips of movie remakes that don’t actually exist prompted participants to falsely remember the films—but simple text descriptions of the fake movies prompted similar false memory rates. Gillian Murphy of University College Cork, Ireland, and Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on July 6, 2023.

  • ExcrubulentEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I love how the headline is the sensational part about “deepFAkEs crEATe FAlsE mEmorIeS!!!”, then when you get into the article it’s like, “but that’s nothing special we could already do that with text.” Oh okay great so the big new problem you implied in your headline is actually not really a thing at all.

    Never change, science reporting.

    Honestly, I personally would be more compelled to read an article that didn’t bury the lede, and simply put, “Deepfakes no more potent than text descriptions at creating false memories.” That’s not only the actual truth, it’s really interesting!