By Makoto Mitsui

8:00 JST, February 15, 2025

When we think of “pollution,” it’s easy to imagine the natural environment. Microplastics are spreading in the oceans, for example, and there is concern about their negative impact on living creatures.

However, in this digital era, pollution is not limited to the natural environment. The development of artificial intelligence is spreading contaminants to digital spaces connected by the internet. These contaminants are not toxic substances, but disinformation.

“It is becoming difficult to distinguish whether information is fact or false,” said Kazutoshi Sasahara, a professor of computational social science at the Institute of Science Tokyo.

Sasahara cited a paper published in the journal Science Advances in June 2023 by a Swiss research team.

In their research, they used GPT-3, a generative........

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