Japanese Consortium Develops AI for Information Verification
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August 18, 2025 | 03:21 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A consortium in Japan involving Fujitsu Ltd. is developing an AI-based fact-checking platform to verify online disinformation. False information is more likely to emerge during disasters and in the lead-up to elections. According to Kyodo News, Thursday, August 14, 2025, A group of nine organizations, including the National Institute of Informatics and NEC Corp., as well as several academic institutions, plans to finish this project by the end of fiscal year 2025.
Joint Funding
The AI is designed to analyze, gather supporting data, and assess the authenticity of information on the Internet. "It involves lots of checking when you want to ascertain truth on your own, but the system could help us make quick judgments," said Dai Yamamoto, Senior Project Director at Fujitsu.
At the end of May, Yamamoto tested the system by inputting the statement, "A group of foreign thieves went to quake-hit areas immediately after the Noto earthquake." Yamamoto asked this artificial intelligence system to verify it.
Within a few seconds, the system displayed a message that the statement was false. This assessment was reinforced by a newspaper article that contained conflicting information and mentioned the media's high accuracy rate.
This system uses a large language model designed to combat misinformation. This project is funded at 6 billion yen (Rp660 billion) by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, a Japanese government agency.
With this platform, images and videos (deepfakes) depicting real figures but created by AI can be detected. According to the developers, this system is capable of recognizing characteristics. This joint agreement was made amid growing concerns about the spread of online disinformation and misinformation, including fake disaster videos that have a negative impact during crises.
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