Abstract
Spread of misinformation presents a technological and so-
cial threat to society. With the advance of AI-based lan-
guage models, automatically generated texts have be-
come difficult to identify and easy to create at scale. We
present the “Rumour Mill", a playful art piece, designed as
a commentary on the spread of rumours and automatically-
generated misinformation. The mill is a tabletop interactive
machine, which invites a user to experience the process of
creating believable text by interacting with different tangible
controls on the mill. The user manipulates visible parame-
ters to adjust the genre and type of an automatically gener-
ated text rumour. The Rumour Mill is a physical demonstra-
tion of the state of NLP technology and its ability to gener-
ate and manipulate natural language text, and of the act of
starting and spreading rumours.
cial threat to society. With the advance of AI-based lan-
guage models, automatically generated texts have be-
come difficult to identify and easy to create at scale. We
present the “Rumour Mill", a playful art piece, designed as
a commentary on the spread of rumours and automatically-
generated misinformation. The mill is a tabletop interactive
machine, which invites a user to experience the process of
creating believable text by interacting with different tangible
controls on the mill. The user manipulates visible parame-
ters to adjust the genre and type of an automatically gener-
ated text rumour. The Rumour Mill is a physical demonstra-
tion of the state of NLP technology and its ability to gener-
ate and manipulate natural language text, and of the act of
starting and spreading rumours.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | Apr 2020 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4503-6819-3/20/04 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2020 |
| Event | The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 https://chi2020.acm.org/ |
Conference
| Conference | The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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| Location | Honolulu |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| Period | 25/04/2020 → 30/04/2020 |
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Keywords
- misinformation
- AI-based language models
- interactive machine
- natural language processing (NLP)
- automated text generation