Press Gazette launches AI content detection tool for prepublication checks
Made by Humans checks text, images, audio and video for synthetic manipulation before editors publish.
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When seeing is no longer believing: How AI fakes complicate visual investigations
Journalists and open-source experts say AI manipulation, shrinking access to footage and rising costs are making visual verification harder.
Publishers remove articles after AI-concerns emerge over four tech writers’ identities
Hacker Noon and Information Age removed articles after Press Gazette asked publishers to verify four prolific tech and finance contributors.
AI chatbots beat search engines at spotting foreign propaganda, NPR test finds
NPR and NewsGuard posed 30 propaganda-based questions to six chatbots and four search engines, and the chatbots handled them better.
Reuters reviews hundreds of images a day. How does it verify them?
Reuters details how its visual verification team confirms user-shot photos and video, publishing roughly a dozen of hundreds reviewed each day.
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Google’s Backstory aims to speed up image verification for fact-checkers
The experimental DeepMind tool combines provenance checks, reverse image searches and context tracing. India Today uses it as a first pass, then verifies the results manually.
Anthropic says Claude’s text watermark survives light editing but not rewrites
Anthropic detailed how Claude's SynthID-based text watermark works, when editing removes it and why code carries a lesser mark.
Fake Forbes sites sold guaranteed coverage for $10,000, PR pitch shows
Forbes has confirmed two AI-generated sites are fake, after a PR agency offered Press Gazette guaranteed placement on one for $10,000.
Runtime Wire runs an AI newsroom with one human and 1,627 published stories
Runtime Wire's founder Ryan Merket runs an AI newsroom that scanned 71,796 stories and published just 2.3 percent of them.
Reuters, BBC and Guardian chart distinct newsroom paths for using AI tools
Reuters, the BBC and The Guardian are adopting AI according to their distinct commercial, public-service and editorial mandates.