Category: Artificial Intelligence
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Dissertation Submitted: The AI-Driven Disinformation Ecosystem
On September 30, I submitted my dissertation, “The AI-Driven Disinformation Ecosystem: Measurement Validity Across Generation, Perception, Detection, and Mitigation”. The thesis makes two contributions of its own: a reusable sequence of checks for building and evaluating detection benchmarks, and a map that relates claims about disinformation campaigns to the evidence needed to support them. Parts…
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Interrupting the Chain: Our Kill Chain Paper at INFORMATIK 2026
Today the workshop “From Prompt to Propaganda: Generative AI and the New Dis/Mis-Information Lifecycle” takes place in Dresden, as part of INFORMATIK 2026, organized by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Marc-Oliver Pahl (IMT Atlantique) leads the workshop. Two papers by Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl, and me are part of it. Accepted workshop papers are published…
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RogueGPT Is Published in the Journal of Open Source Software
Today the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) published our paper “RogueGPT: A Controlled Stimulus Generation Framework for News Authenticity Research”, written with Martin Kappes and Marc-Oliver Pahl. JOSS reviews the software along with the paper: reviewers install it, check that it does what the paper says, and look at the documentation and tests. What…
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How a Research Dataset Ended Up in a Safari Extension
Mac & i reviewed Trackless Links and noticed its credibility indicators. Behind them sits CRED-1, an open dataset. The story of how it went from Zenodo to iPhones.
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Wie ein Forschungsdatensatz in eine Safari-Erweiterung kam
Mac & i hat Trackless Links getestet und dabei die Glaubwuerdigkeitshinweise erwaehnt. Dahinter steckt CRED-1, ein offener Datensatz aus meiner Forschung. Die Geschichte, wie er von Zenodo auf iPhones kam.