Walter Scheirer
Computer Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor
- Image forensics
- Computer vision
- Machine learning
- Biometrics
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Wisconsin Public Radio
Does AI dream?
April 02, 2024
The internet is indeed overflowing with fake content, says computer scientist Walter Scheirer.
USA Today
Image of Donald Trump leading crowd down flag-lined street is AI-generated | Fact check
March 15, 2024
The original also contains several hallmarks of AI-generated images that are less prominent in the more recent version, Walter Scheirer, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, told USA TODAY in an email.
WGN
‘A History of Fake Things on the Internet’
December 29, 2023
Author Walter Scheirer discusses his new book about how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true.
WSBT TV
Notre Dame professor weighs in on creative uses for Artificial Intelligence
December 26, 2023
Walter Scheirer, a Notre Dame Associate Professor and author of "A History of Fake Things on the Internet," says AI and human creativity is not mutually exclusive.
Nautilus
Stop Worrying About Deepfakes
December 21, 2023
And yet, when Walter Scheirer, a computer scientist and media forensics expert at the University of Notre Dame, sent his students to scour the internet for examples of AI-doctored videos, what they brought back surprised him. It was, he says, “memes all the way down.”
IEEE Spectrum
Fakes: Not an Internet Thing, a Human Thing
December 15, 2023
University of Notre Dame computer science professor WalterJ. Scheirer has come at this core problem of online speech, including images, from an unconventional direction.
The Washington Post
Yes, people lie online. But it may matter less than we fear.
December 06, 2023
In “A History of Fake Things on the Internet,” computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer proposes that much of what has been disparaged as “misinformation” is best considered under a different rubric: that of art.
The New Yorker
What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes
November 13, 2023
The computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer has worked in media forensics for years. He understands more than most how these new technologies could set off a society-wide epistemic meltdown, yet he sees no signs that they are doing so. Doctored videos online delight, taunt, jolt, menace, arouse, and amuse, but they rarely deceive. As Scheirer argues in his new book, “A History of Fake Things on the Internet” (Stanford), the situation just isn’t as bad as it looks.
Salon
Limits to growth: Can AI’s voracious appetite for data be tamed?
November 05, 2021
"It seems to me that the big internet companies are very reluctant to even talk about this because it threatens their core business," said Walter Scheirer, a computer scientist at the University of Notre Dame.