Google Announces New Image Fact-Checking Tools 🔎

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Google introduces new tools dedicated to countering the spread of visual misinformation. Can these become the new go-to fact-checker tools?

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Google Announces New Image Fact-Checking Tools 🔎

• AI Research: Chinese Researchers Introduce 'Woodpecker', a Framework to Tackle AI’s Hallucination Problem

• AI Tutorial: Create Canva Visuals Using ChatGPT

• AI Image of The Day🎨: Zdzislaw Beksinski paints Marvel film posters

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

GOOGLE

Google Announces New Image Fact-Checking Tools 🔎

Misinformation spreads rapidly online, often aided by fake or out-of-context images and videos. To combat this, Google is releasing new tools to help users verify and understand the origins of images.

Details:

• Users can now view an image's history, metadata, and how others have described it online.

• Approved journalists and fact-checkers can upload images to Google's Fact Check Explorer to surface details and references.

• Google's search-based AI will generate information about unfamiliar sites and pages to establish their reputation and credibility. AI-generated images will be clearly labeled.

With the increasing prevalence of generative AI technology, which empowers users to effortlessly generate diverse images, companies are actively developing solutions to prevent its misuse.

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AI RESEARCH

Chinese Researchers Introduce 'Woodpecker', a Framework to Tackle AI’s Hallucination Problem

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China and Tencent have developed an innovative new framework called Woodpecker that identifies and corrects hallucinations in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).

Details:

• “Hallucination” refers to the phenomenon that the generated text is inconsistent with the image content.

• The framework goes through five stages: key concept extraction, question formulation, visual knowledge validation, visual claim generation, and hallucination correction.

• By validating generated text against visual inputs, Woodpecker significantly boosted accuracy in tests.

Hallucinations have been a major issue holding back real-world applications of large multimodal AI models. By correcting inconsistencies between text and images, Woodpecker could make these systems much more reliable.

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AI Tutorial

Create Canva Visuals Using ChatGPT

Create logos, banners, posts and more using Canva in ChatGPT:

Note: To use the Canva plugin, you need access to ChatGPT Plus.

1. Go to the ChatGPT plugin store, search and install the Canva plugin

2.  Describe what you want to create

For a logo you can use a prompt like this: “I am the owner of a [industry] company in [city]. Create a logo that suits it."

This works for any visual, you can also ask it to make videos like Instagram Reels

3. Modify in Canva

To customize, click on the link above the visual that you prefer. This link will take you to Canva, where you can make your desired edits.

When you are done you can share or download the result.

AI Image of The Day

Marvel movie posters reimagined in Beksinski's distinctive style.

Source: u/humanyears on Reddit

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