Visual Misinformation and AI: A Technological and Societal Challenge

The rise of generative artificial intelligence is profoundly transforming the mechanisms of disinformation. Beyond text, it is now fake images, falsified videos, and synthetic voices that fuel confusion, influence public opinion, and threaten collective trust in our societal institutions.

This Sector of Excellence Meeting, presented by CRIM (Montreal Computer Research Center), provides an overview of the risks associated with AI-powered visual and multimodal disinformation. By bringing together experts in computer vision, ethics, immersive technologies, and social sciences, the panel explores the impacts of these new forms of manipulation, the challenges of automated detection, and strategies for responding to them responsibly.