The Buffalo News reported on the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse region’s effort to receive tens of millions of dollars in funding under its federal tech hub application and to create an $8 million “semiconductor corridor” led by UB.
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.
