Deep Fakes: The Internet, AI, and the Attack on Authentic African Diasporic Identity

• In Event: AI and the Future of the Discipline

Abstract

With the rise of troubling movements in the Americas, such as those that claim that African descendants are not actually descended from Africa, but instead are Native Americans have spread via the internet. Using history, historical classic reference points, and Afrocentricity, this presentation will engage and interrogate the use of AI generated deep fake images, misdated images, and geographically mislabeled images to further this misinformation.

Author

• David Walton, Western Carolina Univserity