UM TodayDrake – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 CBC News: Math lessons from deepfakes of Drake, other celebrities on TikTok raise concerns about misinformation https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-news-math-lessons-from-deepfakes-of-drake-other-celebrities-on-tiktok-raise-concerns-about-misinformation/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-news-math-lessons-from-deepfakes-of-drake-other-celebrities-on-tiktok-raise-concerns-about-misinformation/#respond Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:26:02 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=194800 CBC News: Math lessons from deepfakes of Drake, other celebrities on TikTok raise concerns about misinformation]]> “These tools are trained on the existing information that is already out there on the internet, which means that it is inherently biased. Truth is not part of the model,” said David Gerhard, a professor and head of the department of computer science at the University of Manitoba. 

“It’s not as reliable as it should be and my biggest concern is that people will become complacent. They will ask a question and get an answer and then not dig any further and that’ll be a real problem.”

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