Mitigating Misinformation Online: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Delivered in English)
- LecturerProf. Aiping Xiong (The Pennsylvania State University)
Host: Lun-Wei Ku - Time2024-05-29 (Wed.) 10:00 ~ 12:00
- LocationAuditorium 106 at IIS new Building
Abstract
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 United States presidential elections and the COVID-19 pandemic. 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 to the trustworthiness of online content. In this talk, Dr. Xiong will describe a few recent interdisciplinary efforts for misinformation mitigation and discuss challenges and potential solutions for mitigating AI-generated content (e.g., hallucinations and deepfakes).
BIO
Dr. Aiping Xiong is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University. 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 (e.g., JEP: HPP and JEP: Applied), and top-tier conferences in security and privacy (e.g., IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, and ACM CCS), computational social science (e.g., ICWSM and WebSci), data science (e.g., KDD), and more (e.g., WWW, CSCW, and EMNLP). Dr. Xiong received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Purdue University in 2017.