Jacqueline Chavez: Week 2 Assignment

 https://www.xxlmag.com/cardi-b-threatens-sue-person-fake-evidence-offset-cheating-ai/

On Sunday, August 20th, 2023, Twitter user @ayywalker reported alleged evidence and allegations that Offset was cheating on Cardi B. Cardi addressed the claims on Twitter that the person behind the account would be getting sued for using AI to defame Offset. Cardi writes, “You're going to be getting sued, and we're going to make an example out of you. Yeah, and that was a terrible AI voice, by the way, so yeah, bye." This interaction is striking as it raises the question of how problematic AI could be. In Caroline Jack's article "Lexicon of Lies: Terms for Problematic Information," there is a link to an article called "To "keep Americans safe," Biden's AI executive order must ban these practices." This article talks about President Biden establishing new groundwork for the safety and liability of AI in a world where people use it to spread false information on purpose. Although the article touches more on the logistics and harm of AI in criminal and federal systems, I believe the bill would affect Cardi’s situation positively as it aims to protect Americans’ reputations and their safety firsthand by touching on the harms of AI and forbidding it to be used with tampering evidence.

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1695232102269059376?s=46&t=1Z29QTWXZGZK2Ws054aH9w

According to reporter, Brian Krassenstein “another ridiculous conspiracy theory” has been proven wrong. Krassenstein tweets a status that  Bronny James’ cardiac arrest, “was caused by a congenital heart defect, NOT THE MRNA VACCINE.” For Krassenstein to clarify that James’ health was not caused by the mRNA vaccine means there was misinformation purposefully spread regarding the health of Bronny in the first place, as people online are quick to blame vaccines in order to spread misinformation about its credibility. In the reading from Vraga and Bode, the authors contribute to this discussion by stating that “true misinformation” is, “making an important distinction between lack of knowledge (or ignorance) and confident, yet inaccurate knowledge (true misinformation). (Vraga Bode 1) This quote parallels the action of anti-vacciners, who often go online to be ignorant with confidence, with inaccurate and unreliable information.