The Guardian (UK) featured Siwei Lyu and the DeepFake-o-meter that he developed with his team that allows users to upload media to be checked for AI-generated images or audio while also providing transparency about variability in results.
A story in the Daily Mail about impressive images from a Turkish plastic surgery clinic quoted Siwei Lyu, who said that the images, “seem to suggest AI generation.”
USA Today published a fact-checking article about a photo of Donald Trump attending a cookout while surrounded by Black supporters, with Siwei Lyu noting that the image shows "clear signs of AI synthesis."
Lead Stories used the DeepFake-O-Meter developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in a fact-checking article to determine that a video of Elon Musk discussing a conspiracy theory with Joe Rogan about the Fruit of the Loom brand’s logo is fake.
Nieman Lab reported on Siwei Lyu's willingness to help Keren Robleo, the deputy editor of fact-checking publication Boom Live, to identify a fake audio clip of a local official.
A People article about a woman who created her own facial recognition software company, Alecto AI, after being a victim of a deepfake pornographic video quoted Siwei Lyu about the psychological and emotional trauma that victims of deepfake videos can have.
