Tag: Verification
To Free Themselves From Lies, Journalists are Using New Tools and Techniques to Check Facts | EDITOR & PUBLISHER
‘Today, reporters, as well as editors and the production staff, now must work faster than ever but getting the story…
What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, for starters | NEIMAN LAB
‘Whether or not opinion columnists’ direst predictions come to fruition, it seems almost inevitable that newsrooms operating in a world…
AI-powered journalism: A time-saver or an accident waiting to happen? | JOURNALISM.CO.UK
‘automated journalism is only as reliable as the information that has been plugged into it to during its development and…
Using the power of machines to complete impossible reporting tasks | ICIJ
‘As datasets become bigger and more complex, machine learning models that help reporters sort and analyze data are becoming not…
Google releases videos to help researchers create better ‘deepfake’ detection tools | SILICON ANGLE
‘Google’s videos should be useful, since many of them appear to be incredibly realistic, especially to users who have no…
Explainable AI and the Companies Leading the Way | VENTURE RADAR
‘…as models become more specialised and complex, they turn out to be increasingly opaque and harder to interpret.’ Verification can…
Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We are outgunned’ | THE WASHINGTON POST
The ability to create synthetic videos outweighs detection methods by ‘100 to 1’, according to a digital forensics professor at…
How to Blend Journalistic Expertise with Artificial Intelligence for Research and Verifying News Stories | Missaoui et al
How do journalists perceive artificial intelligence? Six UK researchers wanted to find out to help develop an AI tool that…
What is machine learning and why should I care? | CJR
The COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW explains machine learning with examples of how it’s being used in newsrooms. Author Nick Diakopoulos describes…
The next disruption
A QUESTION COMES TO MIND, we say it out loud, an ‘assistant’ answers back. We glance at our mobile, it…
How Reuters is training reporters to spot ‘deepfakes’ | DIGIDAY
DIGIDAY UK reports how Reuters created its own fake video to test its in-house verification team and step-up its ability…
The out-there AI ideas designed to keep the US ahead of China | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW reports new details of a $2 billion plan for AI research by DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced…
Is deep learning the same as AI & machine learning?
by Andrew Cochran December 30, 2018 updated October 2019 It’s confusing when terms mean the same thing — sometimes. Artificial…
7 challenges for journalism | WEF
THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM says the principal impacts of AI on journalism are similar to those in many areas: automating…
Giving Computers a Nose for News: Exploring the limits of story detection and verification | Thurman et al
Using algorithms for story discovery heralds a new phase for social media says Neil Thurman and his co-authors. They look…