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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Melody Hildebrandt, CTO of Fox Corporation and Mike Blank, COO at Polygon Labs. Why these two companies? Well, Polygon Labs, the layer-2 blockchain focused on scaling Ethereum, and Fox Corporation, the well-known media conglomerate, joined forces in January to tackle deepfakes as artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent. Fox released…

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Melody Hildebrandt, CTO of Fox Corporation and Mike Blank, COO at Polygon Labs.

Why these two companies? Well, Polygon Labs, the layer-2 blockchain focused on scaling Ethereum, and Fox Corporation, the well-known media conglomerate, joined forces in January to tackle deepfakes as artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent.

Fox released Verify, an open source technical protocol for media companies to register content and grant usage rights to AI platforms, while also allowing consumers to verify content through Polygon’s tech.

This episode is a part of Chain Reaction’s monthly series diving into different topics and themes in crypto. This month we’re focusing on blockchain and AI integrations.

They discuss:
– The Fox and Polygon partnership
– Protecting content from misuse
– What role blockchain technology can play with verifying news
– How deepfakes can affect the U.S. 2024 election

(0:00) Introduction
(1:57) Safeguarding against AI-created media
(3:42) Protecting content creators
(10:10) Blockchain’s role in AI trust and transparency
(14:43) Validating content creation and ownership on the blockchain
(18:38) Content authenticity
(24:48) Verifying content
(29:42) Combatting misinformation
(39:07) AI and blockchain technology for content verification

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25 Years after Phantom Menace, Jar Jar Binks Actor Ahmed Best Reflects on the Power of Redemption

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