[VCEE Seminar] REMINDER: VCEE Seminar with Ruben Durante - Invitation, December 1

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Dear All,

You are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Monday, December 1, from 11:30
to 13:00 hrs Vienna time. 

The seminar takes place in lecture hall 7 (1st floor) at
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1.

We will have one speaker: Ruben Durante (NUS Singapore)

Webpage:  https://www.rubendurante.net/


Here is more information about the talk:

Title: GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a
Field Experiment (with Filipe Campante, Ruben Durante, Felix Hagemeister,
Ananya Sen) 

 

Abstract:

We study how AI-generated misinformation affects demand for trustworthy
news, using data from a field experiment by Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), a
major German newspaper. Readers were randomly assigned to a treatment that
highlighted the difficulty of distinguishing real from AI-generated images.
The treatment increased concern over misinformation (+0.3 s.d.) and reduced
trust in all news sources (-0.1 s.d.), including SZ itself. Crucially, it
also affected post-survey browsing behavior: daily visits to SZ digital
content rose by 2.5% in the days following the treatment. In addition,
subscriber retention increased by 1.1% over the following five months,
corresponding to about a one-third drop in attrition rate. These results are
consistent with a model in which the relative value of trustworthy news
sources rises with the prevalence of misinformation, boosting engagement
with these sources even as trust in news content declines.

If you are interested in meeting Ruben Durante (one 30’ meeting slot is
still available) you can register via this link:

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/MrNqHx8Hy3km3ucy

 

Best regards,

Sylvia

 

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