A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
Every day the fact-checking team for one of India's largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media.
Google DeepMind has developed an experimental AI image authentication tool called Backstory. The tool is being offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and fact-checkers. According to Nieman Lab, Backstory aims to help verify the authenticity of images circulating on social media.
The tool's development was reported by Techmeme, which cited an example of a fact-checking team in India working to debunk false and misleading images on social media.
Google Research has also been working on a separate system, PhotoScan, which uses AI to estimate body composition by analyzing 2D images of the body, as reported by Android Authority. This system was trained using data from X-ray scans and can estimate body fat levels, as well as ratios between core and waist/leg fat, and organ and subcutaneous fat.
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