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What's Next? | Access for All: The Arts Access Initiative| Unmasking Bias: Exploring AI's Impact with the UB Center for Information Integrity
10/2/24
WBFO's "What's Next?" Interviewed Bruce Pitman and other UB faculty members who discussed their work in UB’s Center for Information Integrity.
Sophistication of AI-backed operation targeting senator points to future of deepfake schemes
9/26/24
The Associated Press quoted Siwei Lyu about a deepfake operation that targeted Sen. Ben Cardin, with Lyu noting that he is expecting more of these kinds of incidents to happen in the future.
UB SEAS ranked 30th in undergraduate engineering programs among public universities
9/24/24
UB continues to rank among the top public universities in the nation, according to the latest rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report.
Deepfakes Of Virat Kohli, Shweta Singh Promote Scam Betting App Aviator
9/22/24
Dailyhunt used the DeepFake-o-meter, developed by Siwei Lyu, to determine that a viral video that depicts cricketer Virat Kohli endorsing a betting app called Aviator during a news segment with Aaj Tak anchor Shweta Singh is fake.
University at Buffalo Awarded $10 million Grant to Establish National Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI
9/19/24
Sen. Charles E. Schumer announced that the university has received a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to establish the Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI.
UB awarded $10 million grant to lead new national center on early literacy and responsible AI
9/19/24
Grant further strengthens UB’s national leadership in artificial intelligence research.
Taylor Swift Combats Election Misinformation, Apple Debuts AI iPhones, Oprah Talks Up AI
9/16/24
CNET mentioned the DeepFake-o-Meter, created by Siwei Lyu and his team, in a roundup of the week’s developments in AI.
UB’s DeepFake-o-Meter democratizes deepfake detection
9/10/24
The DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in UB’s Media Forensic Lab, is providing a free deepfake detection tool to combat misleading information.
UB’s DeepFake-o-Meter democratizes deepfake detection
9/10/24
Free tool gives everyone from journalists to social media users the resources to combat misleading information.
Tools for trustworthy AI
9/4/24
A post on IBM’s artificial intelligence blog about trustworthy AI tools featured Siwei Lyu and the deepfake-detection algorithms designed by Lyu and his team to minimize bias.

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