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00:23:20Simultaneously with the real war that has been going on in different cities of Iran and several other
00:23:23involved countries, another war has been happening in the
00:23:27virtual space, a war between fake and
00:23:31real, a war between doubt about visual documents and
00:23:35trust in them. Especially Ali Mardani at the Witness Institute has been working
00:23:38on this danger of artificial intelligence for a long time. This
00:23:42war that has been going on in Iran and several other countries in the region
00:23:46has coincided with the availability of artificial intelligence
00:23:50tools. Perhaps it can be said that this is the first major war and the biggest
00:23:54war we have witnessed since the popularization of artificial intelligence.
00:23:57Now, the access and quantity of
00:24:00artificial intelligence content have increased much more
00:24:03than that other war, which we were talking about. It seems that the investment of both sides
00:24:07of the war or several sides of the war
00:24:10in these tools has also increased. Look, whenever
00:24:13there has been war in the history of our world,
00:24:17we have always seen propaganda from all sides.
00:24:21Now, this propaganda with artificial
00:24:24intelligence has another effect, and
00:24:27we have really reached a point where it is very difficult
00:24:31for ordinary people to distinguish what
00:24:34is real and what is not real.
00:24:38We see that very believable content
00:24:41is being created. When a user sees such content
00:24:45that is so convincing, what can be expected of them?
00:24:49It has become
00:24:54very difficult, and we are seeing that when
00:24:58you talk to very professional journalists
00:25:01and people who
00:25:04do fact-checking professionally,
00:25:07everyone is saying that the number
00:25:10has increased so much and its realism has also increased
00:25:14that it has become very difficult, and there is a great need
00:25:17for responsibility by those who have power in
00:25:21this space, regarding AI models that generate content, and to
00:25:25implement transparency systems within the model itself.
00:25:28Now, we don't see companies saying that they are trying to
00:25:32label and
00:25:35do different things in a way that
00:25:38the discussion takes place, it's not possible and it's not enough, meaning it's not
00:25:41enough, that information about the reality
00:25:45of content as soon as
00:25:48lies spread in the virtual space. You don't see
00:25:52lies spreading faster. Lies not only spread faster, but
00:25:56they also have more buyers than
00:25:59reality, because some people are waiting to believe that
00:26:02false or fabricated content. That's exactly how it is.
00:26:06We all have our own beliefs, and when
00:26:10a piece of content,
00:26:12a fake one, matches our beliefs, it's easier to accept it.
00:26:16And in the toxic environment we
00:26:20see in Iran, we ourselves know that this toxic information
00:26:23environment has been created by the Islamic Republic for 47 years,
00:26:27before and after the internet, to control information,
00:26:31through media or through the internet. And it's
00:26:34such that any information that comes out of
00:26:38Iran, if it's somehow described as being
00:26:41against the regime itself, we can easily understand why
00:26:45people don't believe it. But in this kind
00:26:48of situation where there's a war and people are in danger,
00:26:52not knowing what is real
00:26:55and what is not real can really endanger people's
00:26:59lives. That people are in danger.
00:27:11I am an Iranian in Iranian society and I see
00:27:14how my surroundings always ask
00:27:17me, "Is this true? What should we believe? Did they really hit
00:27:21this building? Are they really killing civilians?"
00:27:25In this human rights work, we are always
00:27:28looking for documents to record crimes
00:27:32against human rights. It has become very difficult,
00:27:36especially in this environment where everyone doubts
00:27:39our documents. We are now in the middle of this war, several
00:27:43moments after one of the most unprecedented
00:27:45moments in Iranian history,
00:27:49where thousands of people were killed by the Islamic
00:27:53Republic, and the information environment at that
00:27:55time, access to documents of those crimes
00:27:59was very difficult because of
00:28:03the actions taken by the Islamic Republic, such as internet outages,
00:28:06threats to the families of those killed, arrests
00:28:09of people who were filming, meaning from all aspects they were
00:28:13censoring our access to documents.
00:28:16Now we are in a situation where civilians
00:28:20are dying in this war, and the Islamic Republic
00:28:24is making every effort to ensure that we have access to
00:28:27documents, meaning through the government
00:28:31and government media, they are sending photographers.
00:28:34It is understandable that
00:28:37people doubt this content.
00:28:40This doubt has now intensified because
00:28:44of artificial intelligence. In this environment where people themselves cannot publish
00:28:47content, how much do these internet outages and
00:28:51preventing people's access to publishing content affect
00:28:54people going to artificial intelligence and similar tools
00:28:58to doubt any content that comes out? Israel is a very
00:29:02big factor in this space,
00:29:05and it knows what kind of
00:29:08content Iranians, who dislike the Islamic Republic, know
00:29:11that such content has buyers, and in a place where
00:29:15we cannot hear the real voice of the Iranian people,
00:29:17this content can easily take its
00:29:21place and be believable. We saw some content
00:29:24that from Ekbatan building,
00:29:28they had projected the flag of Israel with light
00:29:31on the building. And we easily realized
00:29:35that it was made with artificial intelligence. But look,
00:29:39in an environment where the Islamic Republic is silencing
00:29:42the voice of the Iranian people, such content has buyers,
00:29:46right? And this way, we see that artificial intelligence is taking the place
00:29:49of these outages and censors in this way,
00:29:53meaning internet outages and censorship that is now being imposed on people.
00:29:57The general Iranian public here is also harming
00:30:01the image that Iranians can see of what is happening in their country.
00:30:04Exactly in this environment, we see, for example, a
00:30:08country like Israel can take the place
00:30:11of this content with fake content.
00:30:43Multiple reports of a significant decrease in US
00:30:47weapon stockpiles and Washington's denial. Has the shortage
00:30:51of missiles and missile defense systems changed Trump's strategy
00:30:54against a war with Iran? Let's see
00:30:58Ukraine. Is what they say really true?