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Google DeepMind offers Backstory AI image authentication tool to journalists and fact-checkers

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Google DeepMind has released Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool, for testing by journalists, researchers, and fact-checkers. The tool aims to help verify the authenticity of images, addressing the challenge of false and misleading visuals on social media.

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    A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

    Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab : A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers — Every day the fact-checking team for one of India's largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media.