Generative AI and the Threat to Thinking Information security is concerned with maintaining the integrity of the information ecosystem. The proliferation of content created using generative artificial intelligence can overwhelm the ability of people to process information. Consideration of a … Read More
Author Archives: r.leoni@dstech.it
Activities and Needs of European Fact-checkers as a Basis for Designing Human-Centered AI Systems
Autonomation, Not Automation: Activities and Needs of European Fact-checkers as a Basis for Designing Human-Centered AI Systems To mitigate the negative effects of false information more effectively, the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to assist fact-checkers is needed. Nevertheless, … Read More
Workshop on Ethical, legal, social impact/aspect research frameworks
The press release announces that the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), in partnership with the Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), is organising a workshop titled “Ethical, legal, social impact/aspect research … Read More
MultiSocial: Multilingual Benchmark of Machine-Generated Text Detection of Social-Media Texts
MultiSocial: Multilingual Benchmark of Machine-Generated Text Detection of Social-Media Texts Recent LLMs are able to generate high-quality multilingual texts, indistinguishable for humans from authentic human-written ones. Research in machine-generated text detection is however mostly focused on the English language and … Read More
EuroVerdict: A multilingual dataset for verdict generation against misinformation
EuroVerdict: A multilingual dataset for verdict generation against misinformation Misinformation is a global issue that shapes public discourse, influencing opinions and decision-making across various domains. While automated fact-checking (AFC) has become essential in combating misinformation, most work in multilingual settings … Read More
Press Release June 2025
The AI-CODE Consortium has released a new video titled “AI-CODE: Empowering Journalists in the Age of AI” that highlights the importance of using artificial intelligence ethically and responsibly in the media industry, showing both the threats posed by AI-enabled disinformation … Read More
AI-CODE Project Develops AI Tools to Tackle Online Disinformation
The EU-funded AI-CODE initiative, coordinated by DST – Creative Tech Company under the Horizon Europe programme, brings together a multidisciplinary consortium of media, academic and technology partners to develop advanced AI-driven tools that help journalists detect manipulated content, verify multimedia … Read More
Bust-AD: Russian-Backed Deepfake Targets Lithuanian News Reporter
The fact-checking initiative Debunk.org reported that a Russian-linked deepfake video featuring a Lithuanian-language news presenter from the 3 Plus channel was used in fraudulent Facebook ads claiming to offer victims of online scams a chance to get money back through … Read More
Typographic Attacks in a Multi-Image Setting
Typographic Attacks in a Multi-Image Setting Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to typographic attacks, which are misclassifications caused by an attack text that is added to an image. In this paper, we introduce a multi-image setting for studying typographic … Read More
Fine-grained Fallacy Detection with Human Label Variation
Fine-grained Fallacy Detection with Human Label Variation We introduce FAINA, the first dataset for fallacy detection that embraces multiple plausible answers and natural disagreement. FAINA includes over 11K span-level annotations with overlaps across 20 fallacy types on social media posts … Read More