The Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program will “develop technologies to automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified, multi-modal media assets to defend against large-scale, automated disinformation attacks.”

This award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was “to create a media analysis tool to detect manipulated media. The initiative, known as SemaFor—a portmanteau of “semantic forensics”—uses AI to analyze text, images, video, and audio to identify the subtle but significant clues that separate the real from the manipulated.”