I Much more is known about the effects of misinformation, especially regarding who is more likely to be deceived: I The elderly; partisans; less educated; less sophisticated; less technologically adept I This is also true for deepfakes (e.g., Appel and Prietzel 2021) What we know about the effect of deepfakes I Motivated reasoning and partisan bias: I People are more likely to accept information t. [...] To evaluate the potential effect of deepfakes in an electoral campaign, as the images/videos of the presidents and the candidate are generated by AI. [...] The effects of “endorsement” on voting I Hypotheses: I text < image < video I Partisan bias: the effect on voting and feeling will be positive for the in-party. [...] I We include question after the experiment to measure the perception of the truthfulness of the images and videos. [...] Counfounding factors (pre-treatment) I Feeling Thermometer + likelihood to vote for Trump/Biden I Social media consumption I Digital literacy Truthfulness (post-treatment) I Rating of accuracy of image/video (believable, accurate, authentic, manipulated) I Image or video actually took place I Open ended question: what does it mean for content to be generated by AI? Ethical Considerations I The stu.
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Table of Contents
- Measuring the Effets of on Voting 1
- Deepfakes 1
- Gabrielle Peloquin-Skulski Aarash Feizi Kellin Pelrine Reihaneh Rabbany Andre Blais 2
- Complex Data Lab 3
- Deepfakes 3
- Deepfakes 4
- Its relatively easy to make now 5
- Deepfakes 5
- With stable diffusion you just write a promptTrudeau and Trump in a nightclub 6
- Blending Realities A Casual Meeting with Donald Trump 7
- And Joe Biden... 8
- What is a 9
- Our approach to making 10
- What types of threats to democracy 11
- Deepfakes 11
- What we know about the effect of 12
- Consequences of 13
- Objectives of our study 14
- Endorsment Effects 15
- Description of the Experiments 16
- Control Group 17
- Experimental Group no.1 18
- Experimental Group no.2 19
- Experimental Group no.3 20
- Dependent variable I 21
- Dependent variable II 22
- Dependent variable III 23
- The effects ofendorsementon voting 24
- Ethical Considerations 27
- Limitations 28
- Experimental Group 4 29
- Experimental Group 4 30
- Conclusion 31
- Merci 31
