How is AI changing the way we deal with disinformation? And how will we differentiate between truth and fake in the future? KIT professor Dr. Christof Weinhardt addressed these questions at an interactive workshop last Tuesday.

Attendants included Saxonian public officials and employees from various sectors, as well as ministry department heads and heads of authorities.

At the Meißen University of Applied Sciences near Dresden, they received input on the emergence, detection and combating of disinformation. The FZI project DeFaktS was also presented in this context.

Afterwards, the participants even had the chance to manipulate texts with generative AI. With the help of a DeFaktS classification system for fake news, the participants annotated further texts. The criteria required for this were developed by Isabel Bezzaoui.

What the participants tried out on a few texts during the workshop was the central task of several research assistants at the FZI for over a year and thus an important part of the AI training process. An illustration of the taxonomy process can be found at detektiv-desinformation.de.