Periodic Reporting for period 1 - AI-CODE (AI-CODE - AI services for COntinuous trust in emerging Digital Environments)
Reporting period: 2023-12-01 to 2024-11-30
AI-CODE aims to evolve state-of-the-art research to achieve a novel set of six services that are both content and users-based aligning well with the vision above by addressing the dual challenges of combating disinformation through the detection of manipulated information and the creation of transparent, credible and trusted content and by coaching media professionals in understanding evolving digital environments and leveraging AI technologies.
Its mission is to enable a sustainable transformation of the media ecosystem, ensuring that AI serves as a tool for positive societal impact in creating reliable content and more trustful digital environments.
Generative AI research explored both its risks and benefits. This included assessing Gen-AI’s ability to generate disinformation, such as synthetic visual media and textual narratives in low-resource languages like Greek. Cutting-edge detection techniques for synthetic content were benchmarked across 22 languages, leading to the development of innovative datasets and methods for tasks such as fallacy detection, check-worthy claims identification, and low-resource text classification using large language models (LLMs). Generative AI was also evaluated for its role in enhancing content production workflows, including paraphrasing and summarization, while addressing authorship concerns to ensure trusted information production.
A user-centered approach defined target user groups for each service, developed use scenarios, and established early functional and non-functional requirements alongside key ethical considerations. Additionally, early mock-ups and prototypes were designed based on feedback from co-creation workshops, ensuring alignment with user needs and fostering collaborative development.
These services are expected to have a transformative impact on their daily workflows by automating time-intensive tasks, such as detecting disinformation or identifying credible content, and by utilizing generative AI to enhance content production. AI-CODE aims to facilitate the adoption of AI, particularly generative AI, across the full spectrum of information production processes. Its universal applicability ensures relevance during major societal events, such as elections, as well as during crises, including pandemics, conflicts, and wars. All communicable results from the AI-CODE project will be disseminated to the European R&D community using standardized, recognized, and widely adopted channels, ensuring maximum accessibility and impact.