Holocaust denial - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:15:04 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Holocaust denial - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Holocaust denier's visit to NZ prompts concern and condemnation https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/08/29/holocaust-deniers-visit-to-nz-prompts-concern-and-condemnation/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:52:59 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=175064 The Government should closely scrutinise the visa application of Holocaust denier Candace Owens, the chair of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand has urged. Owens, an American far-right activist with a history of antisemitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments, is visiting Auckland in November as part of a speaking tour which will also take her to Read more

Holocaust denier's visit to NZ prompts concern and condemnation... Read more]]> The Government should closely scrutinise the visa application of Holocaust denier Candace Owens, the chair of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand has urged.

Owens, an American far-right activist with a history of antisemitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments, is visiting Auckland in November as part of a speaking tour which will also take her to Australia.

While Jewish groups across the Tasman have urged their government to reject Owens' visa application, views are more split in New Zealand. Read more

Holocaust denier's visit to NZ prompts concern and condemnation]]> 175064 Artificial intelligence "rewriting the Holocaust" https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/07/04/artificial-intelligence-rewriting-the-holocaust-unesco-warns/ Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:55:58 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=172783 UNESCO denounced the explosion of Holocaust denial and falsification on social networks in a report published in 2022. On the Telegram messaging service, for example, almost half the content linked to the genocide of the Jews was antisemitic. This was also true for one in five Twitter messages devoted to the subject. Two years later, Read more

Artificial intelligence "rewriting the Holocaust"... Read more]]> UNESCO denounced the explosion of Holocaust denial and falsification on social networks in a report published in 2022.

On the Telegram messaging service, for example, almost half the content linked to the genocide of the Jews was antisemitic. This was also true for one in five Twitter messages devoted to the subject.

Two years later, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, ChatGPT and Google Bard are being scrutinised by the UN body to assess their role in the contemporary understanding of the Holocaust.

Since they were made public at the end of 2022, the so-called "generative" artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been answering live questions from millions of users, including many pupils and students. These summaries are compiled without human control, using vast masses of data from the Internet.

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