Month: September 2025
Afghanistan's RTA Broadcasts Clip Of Social Media Even As Taliban Sever Internet Access
In an interesting twist, Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), the national television broadcaster controlled by the Taliban, broadcast a clip today…
Russian Television Features Deepfake "Debate" Between Trump & Macron
Russian news commentary show PolitUkladchik pioneered the first national television network use of deepfake "interviews" with world leaders and last…
Visual Explorer: A Layered Workflow For Detecting Corrupt & Empty Broadcasts Using FFMPEG & Chirp ASR
Any archive of television news coverage spanning hundreds of channels from more than 50 countries over more than a quarter…
Visual Explorer: Another 570,000 Broadcasts Totaling 1.29B Seconds & 2.7B Words ASR'd Through Chirp
As complete the final preparations to bring the Visual Explorer back online, we are excited to announce that an additional…
Russian Television "Interviews" Deepfake Macron & Boris – This Time Without On-Screen Disclaimers
Last week we uncovered what is believed to be the first use of deepfake technology by a national television network…
404 Media: Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show
404 Media covers our discovery of PolitUkladchik, "The World's First Television Program Created By AI" on Russian television. Read The…
Snopes: Unpacking claim Charlie Kirk's wife and children witnessed his shooting
Snopes examines claims in the media and on the web about Charlie Kirk's murder. Read The Full Article.
Amexi: Russia broadcasts AI interviews with Trump and Von der Leyen
Amexi today covers our reporting on Russian AI-powered TV commentary show PolitUkladchik. Read The Full Article.
NewsGuard's Reality Check: Russia’s Defense Ministry Launches an AI-Generated, Anti-West News Show, Blurring the Line Between Satire and Propaganda
NewsGuard's Reality Check covers our discovery of PolitUkladchik, "The World's First Television Program Created By AI" on Russian television. Read…
A Deepfake First: Russian Television "Interviews" Deepfake Donald Trump & Ursula von der Leyen About US & EU Policy On Ukraine
For what we believe is the first time, a national television network has broadcast a news commentary show (PolitUkladchik, the…
How AI-Powered Story Cataloging Stumbled Upon The "World's First Television Program Created By AI" On Russian Television
As we continue our experiments using publicly available AI models (no data is used to train or tune any model)…
A First Glimpse At Combining ASR & OCR For Archive-Scale Corrupt & Blank Broadcast Detection
In any archive as large as the TV News Archive, there will invariably be a small percentage of broadcasts that…
Behind The Scenes: Examining & Estimating Token Consumption For Large Gemini Runs Especially Thinking Tokens
Yesterday we unveiled our latest experiments in large-scale story cataloging to help journalists and researchers move from rote keyword searches…
A First Glimpse At Cataloging 12M Stories Across 1.4M Hours Of Television News Spanning 10B Spoken Words Over A Quarter Century
As we continue exploring how to help journalists and scholars move from rote keyword searches towards thinking of television news…
Data Science Accelerated: Gemini Cloud Assist In BigQuery
One of the most cumbersome tasks in data science is all of the bespoke adhoc code that must be written…