Discussion on deepfakes to mark the opening of the Fake News Festival
“An Attack on Reality – How Safe Are We in the Digital Sphere?” – this question will be the focus of a discussion to mark the opening of the Fake News Festival on Thursday 18 June at 6 pm in the Audimax at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). The discussion will offer activist, legal, technological and political perspectives on AI-manipulated content, ranging from sexualised deepfakes to digital disinformation.
Admission is free; registration for the festival programme is encouraged.
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Our guests are:
- Theresia Crone, activist and columnist, who, as someone directly affected, campaigns, amongst other things, for a ban on pornographic deepfakes,
- Prof. Dr Nella Sayatz, holder of the junior professorship in International and European Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Viadrina University,
- Dr Jonas Fegert, head of the Digital Democracy & Participation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), specialising in Business Informatics and Computational Social Science
- Dr Jörg Treffke, State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government of the State of Brandenburg.
The event will be hosted by Riccardo Vaccaro, presenter and science journalist, who works, amongst other things, in the science editorial team of ‘Quarks’ on ARD.
Following the discussion, the film “Hirschhausen and the Deepfake Mafia” will be screened from 8 pm in the presence of the author and director Kristin Siebert.
More about the Fake News Festival
Over three days, the Fake News Festival at Viadrina invites you to scrutinise disinformation, gain a better understanding of artificial intelligence, and practise how to actively use and help shape the digital world. From Thursday 18 June to Saturday 20 June, anyone interested can try out workshops (with free admission), discuss digitalisation research with researchers and meet renowned thought leaders. Whether you’re looking for an introduction or in-depth discussions, the programme’s 50 or so events – in German and English – offer something for all age groups and a wide range of interests.
Event highlights include keynote speeches by lawyer Ramak Molavi Vasse’i (Thursday 18 June, 2 pm), philosopher Dr Romy Jaster (Friday, 19 June, 3 pm) and AI influencer Max Fröhlich (Friday, 19 June, 8 pm). In addition, experts will offer food for thought and practical tips on dealing with AI and disinformation in more than 20 workshops. In six academic sessions, three researchers in each will present their projects relating to AI, digitalisation and fake news.
The wide range of events can be individually filtered and customised on the festival’s website.
Translated by DeepL and edited
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