Vanessa Toholka

1 week ago | rrr.org.au | Vanessa Toholka |Lilly Ryan

This episode has not yet gone to air. This episode is no longer available. This program is currently on air. Digital watermarking is being applied to AI-made content - Lilly and Vanessa speak with Distinguished Professor of Digital Media Jean Burgess about how it works, and the limits of its capabilities. Computer news, interviews and local insights on global change.

2 months ago | rrr.org.au | Vanessa Toholka |Lilly Ryan |Eric D. Jong

From an episode of Byte Into IT∙Presented by Vanessa Toholka, Lilly Ryan and Eric JongInterview'Official emoji correspondent', linguist and language expert Dr Lauren Gawne, speaks to the Byte Into IT team about the current state of youth online communication, specifially the diverse use of emojis and online slang. She delves into the alternate meanings emojis can have, how that correlates to youth expression and how this fits into the ever-evolving media landscape.

2 months ago | rrr.org.au | Vanessa Toholka |Row Murray

Published multilingual author and Victorian University Masters Graduate, Guido Melo, discusses ‘AI Erasure’ – a term he coined himself in his research at Victorian University revolving around artificial intelligence’s ability to utilise datasets and modify the past due to a bias in user input. He expresses his concern for how datasets can become skewed due to demographics and how this could affect artefacts as basic as family cooking recipes all to follow a biased database.

Mar 26, 2025 | rrr.org.au | Vanessa Toholka |Row Murray

From an episode of Byte Into IT∙Presented by Vanessa Toholka and Row MurrayInterviewHye Jung Han, researcher and advocate in the Children's Rights Divison at Human Rights Watch, discusses the current state of online child safety and the part AI technology plays perpetuating deep fakes. She also speaks to the future of child safety on the internet, and what protections are already out there, and what else can be done to shield young minds.

Jul 24, 2024 | rrr.org.au | Lilly Ryan |Vanessa Toholka

Verity Harding is a globally recognised expert in AI, technology and public policy. She speaks with Lilly about her new book, AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own, which argues for a human-centric approach to AI rather than perpetuating what Harding calls the 'dangerous' idea that artificial intelligence's acceleration is akin to that of the 'arms race'. AI is neither inherently good or bad, and it's we human beings who get to decide how AI turns out.