In Ivory Coast, this awareness campaign about the spread of fake news encourages online responsibility Image: Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images "Deepfakes, videos, audios — it’s so easy to produce disinformation at home for free with the help of artificial intelligence . What might happen in five or 10 years is really scary," said Hendrik Sittig, director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s media program in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risk Report also described AI-supported disinformation as a No. 1 threat, and according to Sittig, it often aims to undermine democratic principles and divide societies. In cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Karen Allen from the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa and Christopher Nehring from the cyberintelligence institute in Germany documented AI disinformation in Africa and […]
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