IST Research Talk: “Hoax Springs Eternal: Exploring an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Mitigation“ - Aiping Xiong
Date & Time: March 14, 2024 from 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Location: E202 Westgate Building
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Join Associate Professor Aiping Xiong for "Hoax Springs Eternal: Exploring an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Mitigation" as part of the IST Research Talks series.
About the Talk
The ubiquitousness of social media platforms and humans’ extended use of them for news consumption paved the way for the proliferation of misinformation in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections and the COVID-19 pandemic. More recently, deepfake images and videos are on the rise in social media platforms, engaging disinformation campaigns. The potential that Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, can also be exploited to generate misinformation poses extra concerns regarding the trustworthiness of online content. In this talk, Xiong will describe recent interdisciplinary efforts for misinformation mitigation and discuss challenges and potential solutions for mitigating AI-generated content, such as hallucinations and deepfakes.
About the Speaker
Dr. Aiping Xiong is an assistant professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. Her research spans cognitive psychology, human factors, and usable security and privacy. She studies human information processing in various security and privacy settings, examines psychological mechanisms contributing to individuals’ susceptibility and vulnerability, and investigates effective ways to help humans make informed decisions and take meaningful actions. Her research findings have been published in primary journals in cognitive psychology and top-tier conferences in security and privacy, computational social science, and data science. Xiong received her doctorate in cognitive psychology from Purdue University in 2017.