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.
The National News reported on how AI can be used to increase plastic recycling rates and quoted Amit Goyal, who is working on the use of “bar codes” to indicate what type of plastic an item is made of to help the process of sorting different recyclable materials.
Newsday reported that SUNY Chancellor John King mentioned UB’s role in leading Empire AI during his State of the University address. Albany News 10 also reported on the address.
Politico’s New York newsletter mentioned that the state budget contains a $275 million investment in artificial intelligence that will include a supercomputing center at UB.
