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Mark Rothermel
@mrothermel.bsky.social
Multimodal Fact-Checking with AI
PhD @ TU Darmstadt 🇩🇪

✉️ t.me/real_maggi
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Very happy to announce that DEFAME, our state-of-the-art fact-checking system, got accepted to #ICML! 🎉😀

We published the revision on Arxiv, featuring a *new multimodal fact-checking benchmark*, an extensive table showing previous methods, polished figures, and much more:
arxiv.org/abs/2412.10510
June 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Über 100 "News"-Seiten verbreiten gezielt Falschinformationen, um die #Bundestagswahl zu manipulieren.

Dahinter steckt "Storm-1516", nach #Doppelgänger die nächste #Desinformationskampagne der 🇷🇺 Russen.
February 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚗 270+ Autos mit Bauschaum im Auspuff - im kompletten Bundesgebiet! Häufig ein Aufkleber der Grünen daneben.

Vieles deutet auf eine neue 🇷🇺 russische #Sabotageaktion hin.

www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
February 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Oh je, #Desinformation ist unter jungen Menschen deutlich manifestierter als ich bisher angenommen habe 😥

Die erschreckendste neue Zahl: 50% der TikTok-User bezweifeln, dass #Russland gezielt Falschinformationen streue!

www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...
January 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Very unsettling: Over half of young adults view #disinformation as acceptable 🥴

fortune.com/2025/01/19/e...

What happens when a world is built on lies? There's no truth, trust, or stability. Then, power simply belongs to the loudest.
January 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Even almost half a year later, our #fact-checking system "InFact" remains the best text-only fact-checker according to the AVeriTeC leaderboard 💪🏻
January 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Turns out, #LLMs tend to generate more false or unsupported claims in later sentences of long outputs.

So, better double-check when you ask #ChatGPT to write your next essay. 😉

arxiv.org/abs/2411.15993
January 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Great team, together with Tobias Braun, Anna Rohrbach, and Marcus Rohrbach. 🧡

Picture taken at the #EMNLP conference in Miami, where I got the great opportunity to present our initial version. 😀
December 19, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Today, we publish the code - and release the preprint of the even more advanced and #multimodal successor! 🎉

💻 GitHub: github.com/multimodal-a...
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10510
📣 News announcement: www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/mai/newsdeta...
December 19, 2024 at 1:41 PM