SEAS in the News

Bust of 'St. Kian Delos Santos' at drug war victims exhibition is AI creation
2/5/26
Agence France-Presse utilized the DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in the Media Forensic Lab, to discredit an AI-generated image of a bust honoring a teenager murdered during the war on drugs in the Philippines.
Musk vows to put data centers in space and run them on solar power but experts have their doubts
2/4/26
The Associated Press sought the perspective of John Crassidis for an article about Space X founder Elon Musk’s plan to establish solar-powered data centers on satellites in space.
As AI improves, real-time deepfakes pose growing risks
2/4/26
Scripps News interviewed Siwei Lyu about the increasingly concerning development of deepfakes, which can now function in real-time.
How water turns cigarette butts into a microplastic nightmare
2/3/26
Earth.com featured research by John Atkinson on the impact of cigarette filters on the microplastics epidemic.
Study: Cigarette filters are an underestimated source of microplastic pollution
2/3/26
John Atkinson and Ghazal Vasseghi, CSEE PhD student, are studying the underestimated contribution of cigarette filters to the microplastic epidemic.
UB Broadens Empire AI Partnerships
2/2/26
The Buffalo News and Newsday reported that UB is expanding its reach through Empire AI by partnering with 11 state colleges to launch “AI in Action: Transforming Higher Education through AI.”

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