The rapid integration of AI into social media platforms as well as the increasing use of LLMs presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Our second seminar series is designed to facilitate impactful conversations between researchers of different expertise and focus as well as practitioners around the use of AI in the mediasphere. Our seminars happen on Thursdays once a month. If you are interested in receiving updates and invites for the monthly talks please join our mailing list.
Our seminars open the stage to individuals across the career spectrum, from junior researchers and senior academics to industry experts, ensuring broad representation.
Our three themes of focus for 2025-2026 are:
Our technical research areas include:
Synthetic Media, AI Afterlives and the Future of Memory.
From Incitement to Disinformation: Advances in Detecting Harmful Narratives.
Is this chart lying to me? Detecting and countering misleading charts with AI.
DecepTIV: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Robust Detection of T2V and I2V Synthetic Videos.
How good are LLMs at reasoning over evidence-based claim verification. [slides], [recording]
LLM for Code Generation: From Correctness to Efficiency. [slides], [recording]