A History of Fake Things on the Internet
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Narrado por:
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Peter Lerman
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Walter Scheirer
As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true.
Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other deviations from reality that have become part of mainstream culture, from image manipulation in the nineteenth-century darkroom to the literary stylings of large language models like ChatGPT. Scheirer investigates the origins of Internet fakes, from early hoaxes that traversed the globe via Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), USENET, and a new messaging technology called email, to today's hyper realistic, AI-generated Deepfakes. His story introduces us to the visionaries and mischief-makers who first deployed digital fakery and continue to influence how digital manipulation works and doesn't today. Ultimately, Scheirer argues that problems associated with fake content are not intrinsic properties of the content itself, but rather stem from human behavior, demonstrating our capacity for both creativity and destruction.
The book is published by Stanford University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
©2024 Walter Jerome Scheirer (P)2025 Redwood AudiobooksReseñas de la Crítica
"Essential reading..." (Sean Lawson, coauthor of Social Engineering)
"Artfully combines the skills of a cultural critic, historian, and computer scientist to explore the many facets of technological duplicity." (Gabriella Coleman, author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy)
"A fascinating study of creativity in all its forms..." (Whitney Phillips, coauthor of You Are Here)