Pattie Maes

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1. 6h
   Studies: AI-altered images and chatbots can implant false memories

   According to research rounded up by The Washington Post, MIT Media Lab professor Pattie Maes and colleagues showed 24 everyday photos to 200 participants; after a break, some saw AI-altered versions with changed facial expressions, added soldiers or climate imagery, and those participants were far more likely to form false memories — and more confident in them. In other experiments, participants questioned by a generative AI chatbot after watching a crime video produced about three times as many false memories as a control group, and nearly half falsely remembered remake films that were never made. Georgetown researcher Mattea Sim's 331-participant experiment found about 45% of those given an AI summary with a wrong traffic sign detail correctly remembered the sign, versus about 84% given an accurate summary, even when told the summary was AI-generated.

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2. 21h
   MIT research: AI-altered images can plant false memories

   Researchers led by MIT's Pattie Maes showed participants a set of photographs and later let some of them review the originals while others saw AI-altered versions; on a subsequent memory test, those who saw the altered images were more likely to misremember the originals and were more confident in their false recollections, Gizmodo reported. The article notes that earlier work found deepfakes and AI-generated text could plant false memories about entirely fabricated political scandals, even reducing voting intention. It adds that people are poor at spotting AI hallucinations, and cites Bloomberg's earlier reporting that an internal US Department of Defense investigation concluded overreliance on a Palantir-developed AI system partly contributed to a strike on an Iranian elementary school.

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