AGENTIC-SYSTEMSOctober 24, 20251 min read29 views

Exploring the context of online images with Backstory

Google DeepMind introduces Backstory, a tool designed to provide deeper context and origin details for online images to combat misinformation and enhance digital literacy.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Zoubin Ghahramani, Helen King, Rahul Sukthankar, Raia Hadsell, and Chandu Thota for their leadership and support.

This work was done thanks to the contributions of Mevan Babakar, Hannah Forbes-Pollard, Nikki Hariri, Thomas Leung, Nick Dufour, Ben Usman, Min Ma, Steve Pucci, Spudde Childs, Kate Harrison, Alanna Slocum, Reza Aghajani, Sri Rajendran, Alexey Vorobyov, Ashley Eden, Rishub Jain, Stephanie Chan, Sophie Bridgers, Michiel Bakker, Sures Kumar Thoddu Srinivasan, Tesh Goyal, and Ashish Chaudhary.

We would also like to thank Kent Walker, Camino Rojo, Clement Wolf, J.D. Velazquez, Tom Lue, Ndidi Elue, Rachel Stigler, M.H. Tessler, Ricardo Prada, William Isaac, Tom Stepleton, Zoe Darme, Gail Kent, Vincent Ryan, Aaron Donsbach, Abhishek Bapna, Verena Rieser, Christian Plagemann, Anca Dragan, Joelle Barral, Edward Grefenstette, Sara Mahdavi, Sven Gowal, Florian Stimberg, Christopher Savcak, Allison Garcia, Eve Novakovic, Armin Senoner, Arielle Bier, and the greater Google DeepMind and Google teams for their support, help, and feedback.

Source: Google DeepMind Blog

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