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Agence France-Presse quoted Siwei Lyu in an article about a fake video depicting Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking openly transgender official to serve in the federal government, performing a pagan prayer ritual in a wooded area. 

AFP Fact Check used the DeepFake-o-Meter and quoted Siwei Lyu in an article to debunk an AI-generated photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a hospital.

CBS News 11 Texas mentioned the DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team, in a list of online tools that are helping people detect deepfake scams.

Jason Jiang uses his computer science background to repair tools at the community resource.

SEAS graduate students Adele Lopez and Jermaine Ewers will be serving as leaders in SEAS JEDI in addition to their regular studies. 

PolitiFact quoted Siwei Lyu in a fact-check regarding false online claims that Elon Musk purchased Ford Motor Co. 

A Reuters fact-check quoted Siwei Lyu in an article reporting that two images of airplanes descending into an airport engulfed in flames, purportedly at the Beirut airport amid Israeli airstrikes, are likely AI-generated.

Mashable quoted Siwei Lyu in an article about how to spot an AI-generated video.

Reuters quoted Siwei Lyu  in a fact-check article about an AI-generated video of Donald Trump gorging on McDonald’s french fries.

Tevfik Kosar, Baishakhi Mazumder and Jinjun Xiong are recipients of 2024 SUNY-IBM AI Research Alliance grants.