AI4Media has recently launched a series of seven demo videos that showcase the groundbreaking achievements of AI4Media’s use cases. These videos highlight the strong collaboration between AI researchers and media industry professionals across Europe, addressing critical challenges and exploring new market opportunities. Each video offers a deep dive into how AI is revolutionizing media workflows […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the media industry, enhancing content creation, analysis, and distribution, and providing deeper insights into complex social dynamics both online and offline. AI empowers the media industry to support a democratic society, enrich our lives, and foster creativity like never before. However, the deployment of AI also introduces significant ethical challenges […]

AI4Media is excited to announce the release of a series of booklets featuring the key technological and research highlights from the AI4Media project. These four comprehensive booklets aim to advance the next generation of core AI research for the media industry and society, enhancing Europe’s capabilities in media AI. Each booklet focuses on significant, groundbreaking, […]

Over the past four years, AI4Media has made significant strides in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to address key societal challenges and enhance various aspects of public life. This comprehensive effort has resulted in notable advancements in combating disinformation, improving public understanding of AI, and developing tools that support democratic processes and personal privacy. […]

Now the time has come to see emerging AI regulations enforced before renegotiating and developing further regulatory initiatives. That was the key takeaway from the event titled ‘EU Vision for Media Policy in the Era of AI’ organised by KU Leuven as part of the AI4Media project in mid-June. On June 19, 2024, regulators, researchers, […]

Authors: Rasa Bocyte and Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision News recommender systems that put the audience in the driver’s seat, highly personalised fact-checks and automatically created podcast mixtapes – these are just a few ideas captured in the booklet Exploring AI Potential and Collaborations in the Evolving European Media Landscape. The new […]

AI4Media, in collaboration with the NOESIS Science Center & Technology Museum in Thessaloniki, has co-organised a groundbreaking temporary exhibition titled “Artificial Intelligence: Possibilities and Challenges,” which opened in April 2024. This exhibition is designed to engage both school children and the general public, aiming to demystify the complex world of artificial intelligence. Source: NOESIS Science […]

As part of the AI4Media project, the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium (VRT), has been involved in integrating new AI applications into their workflows. This is a highly complicated process, where there is much to learn from good practices – here VRT shares a few of their insights.  To facilitate better […]

Recommender systems are often criticized for potentially contributing to filter bubbles. This phenomenon is sometimes attributed to algorithmic bias, suggesting that systems operate contrary to user interests. However, this perspective may be overly simplistic; recommender systems are typically optimized for the “utility” as a metric, driven by immediate user engagement such as clicks and likes. […]

As part of their use case in AI4Media, Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) and the Athens Technology Centre (ATC) have developed a demonstrator that allows for the testing of new AI services in a media business environment. The services are integrated into a “lab version” of Truly Media, an established platform for collaborative content […]

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has posed a persistent challenge for the field of disinformation. These technologies make it easier to manipulate content, facilitating its rapid dissemination on the internet, sometimes resulting in intended or unintended harm and deception. Social media platforms serve often as the primary intermediaries between such content and users. […]

The Digital Services Act (DSA) entered into force in August 2023 for Very Large Online Platforms and Search engines (respectively VLOPs and VLOSEs). These actors must comply with their set of DSA obligations including conducting systemic risks assessment and mitigation. While these new obligations hold great promises, the DSA articles do not specify how the […]