Twitter LinkedIn Email In the scope of the EU co-funded AI4Media project, we recently contributed to a long, public report entitled “AI technologies and applications in media: State of Play, Foresight, and Research Directions”. For better accessibility and readability, we’ve now turned our section into a multi-part blog series (with a couple of edits and updates). Here’s the fourth and final part, which looks at a typical work day in the life of a journalist and fact-checker in 2040. To realize the following vision, it’s important to make significant progress in all areas mentioned in previous ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email In the scope of the EU co-funded AI4Media project, we recently contributed to a long, public report entitled “AI technologies and applications in media: State of Play, Foresight, and Research Directions”. For better accessibility and readability, we’ve now turned our section into a multi-part blog series (with a couple of edits and updates). Here’s part three, which looks at future trends and goals for AI-driven content verification. First of all, let’s be clear about one thing: As AI technology gets better, cheaper, and easier to handle, there will also be more opportun ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email Kicked off in September and already in full R&D swing, Horizon Europe project vera.ai (short for: verification assisted by artificial intelligence) is in some way the successor of WeVerify – and yet another important contribution to the fight against digital disinformation. We are a full consortium partner, ready to take on all sorts of tasks over the course of three years. vera ai’s core mission is to develop and build reliable AI tools to help spot and counter disinformation online. This includes all types of content: text, audio, images, and video. The project cat ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email In the scope of the EU co-funded AI4Media project, we recently contributed to a long, public report entitled “AI technologies and applications in media: State of Play, Foresight, and Research Directions”. For better accessibility and readability, we’ve now turned our section into a multi-part blog series (with a couple of edits and updates). Here’s part two, which looks at research challenges with regard to AI and content verification. While existing tools and concepts are already quite sophisticated and invaluable for journalists, investigators and other stakeholders, t ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email As interests in immersive media and respective markets continue to grow, our team has joined two long-term R&D projects focused on different aspects of XR technology – and also took part in Stereopsia, the World Immersion Forum. XR R&D project no. 1 is a massive undertaking: In XReco, 20 partners from 12 countries have joined forces to build a cutting-edge, data-driven XR “ecosystem” for the entire content industry. The EU co-funded project has several focal points. It’s about facilitating data sharing, search and discovery, but will also support XR content creat ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email In the scope of the EU co-funded AI4Media project, we recently contributed to a long, public report entitled “AI technologies and applications in media: State of Play, Foresight, and Research Directions”. For better accessibility and readability, we’ve now turned our section into a multi-part blog series (with a couple of edits and updates). Here’s part one, which looks at the status quo and current limitations of AI in the field of content verification. The phenomenon of online disinformation has evolved since around 2010 and can be defined as “false, inaccurate, or mis ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email Combating the climate crisis probably is the greatest challenge of our time. Without drastic reductions in emissions, comprehensive protection of natural resources and sustainable green management, humanity is basically doomed. This insight is several decades old. What is comparatively new, however, is the realization that the digital media industry can – and must – play a leading role in environmental and climate protection. Green IT is about designing, producing, using and decommissioning or recycling information technology in the most environmentally friendly way poss ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email When: 22-23 September 2022  Where: Prague, Czech Republic   What is it?  The CEDMO International Conference (#CIC2022) is a 1,5 day event, open to the public, organized under the auspices of the Czech Presidency of the European Union. Experts and stakeholders will speak about a wide range of topics that deal with information disorder and ways to counter disinformation.  Conference topics include:  the impact and regulation of disinformation;  how to strengthen democracy in the context of declining trust and increasing societal fragment ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email GoURMET, an H2020 project focused on (better) neural machine translation (NMT) for low resource languages and domains, is about to cross the finish line. With the final review only weeks away, it’s time to take a look at what the consortium created over a course of more than three years (January 2019 – September 2020). It probably makes sense to start with the most tangible result of the project, something that doesn’t require special skills and is very suitable for daily use: GoURMET Translate. The web-based application now offers 16 (!) “exotic” languages that can be t ..read more

Twitter LinkedIn Email It took us a little longer than expected (pandemic and all), but we’ve finally finished creating a new, very special tool for the ongoing fight against mis- and disinformation: a web-based serious game called Go Verify!. Or more precisely: A playable demo version plus the open-source code needed to further develop it. As you may have already guessed, Go Verify! aims to introduce players to the basics of verification – i.e. the act of scrutinizing a piece of content encountered on the wild, wild web. In most cases, verifying (or rather falsifying) a particular statement ..read more