Applied AI for the Protection of Society and Democracy

At AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, media forensic tools are being developed to detect deep fakes and disinformation campaigns. Experts are working on a media forensic software platform that allows users, e.g. media companies or public authorities, to assess the credibility of text, image, video or audio material on the Internet. Artificial intelligence (AI) is used for this. The project focuses in particular on politically motivated disinformation. Because this ultimately weakens or threatens democracy and public trust in political and state institutions. In addition, AI-based tools are being developed that enable the automatic detection of contexts based on text similarity and semantic analysis to track down hate speech, extremism or propaganda, for example. More information: https://defalsifai.at/