As part of the Hungarian Presidency, the Horizontal Working Party on Enhancing Resilience and Countering Hybrid Threats, which has been in operation since the late 2010s, held a meeting in Brussels on 10 September 2024. At the working party"s meeting, the researcher of the Institute of the Information Society of Ludovika University of Public Service, Zsolt Ződi gave a presentation entitled AI generated disinformation - social impacts and impact on the traditional media. The presentation took stock of the difficulties of defining disinformation, the difficulty of separating it from "extremely biased opinion" and "distorted narrative".
Zsolt Ződi, agreeing with Ben Nimmo, who spoke at the session, and somewhat contradicting the common opinion, came to the conclusion that on the one hand, content created with the help of generative artificial intelligence (e.g. image and video generation software) represents a new evolutionary phase rather than a radical change. On the other hand, despite the fact that it has been used intensively by hostile states, it has not yet caused serious damage and does not require changes to established defence methods. (Regulating internet platforms and influencers, deploying fact-checkers, raising media awareness and promoting traditional media.)
