GeekWire: “Journalists used artificial intelligence to check the authenticity of images from the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday night — demonstrating both the potential and the limitations of AI technology in minimizing the spread of misinformation online. AI tools offered by Seattle-based non-partisan nonprofit organization TrueMedia.org were used by reporters to assess images that spread on social media after the shooting, including a photo that appeared to capture a bullet in mid-air behind Trump’s head. That picture was taken by New York Times photographer Doug Mills. But the tendency of social media users to post images without attribution can make it difficult to determine the origins of content, especially when news is breaking. While cautioning that its results were experimental, TrueMedia.org correctly indicated that photo was likely not manipulated, according to Oren Etzioni, the organization’s founder. In a similar way, responding to a query from another journalist, the TrueMedia AI tools also found little evidence of manipulation in what turned out to be an Associated Press photograph of Trump raising his fist after the incident. That picture also circulated widely on social media…”