By the end of next fiscal year, Fujitsu will build the world’s first platform to combat fake information, which will comprehensively detect fake information, collect evidence, analyze, and evaluate it.
As the distribution of fake information on the Internet using generative AI and synthetic content has become a major social issue, individual technologies to detect deliberate fake information (text, images, audio, video) using deep fakes have been considered, but these are only partial solutions to the problem of fake information and have not yet reached a fundamental solution to fake information.
In order to accurately detect fake information, it is essential not only to detect it using these individual technologies, but also to have a system to collect related peripheral information and verify it in an integrated manner.
As an approach to solving fake information, nine parties from industry and academia, including Fujitsu, will collect and integrate peripheral information related to information of unknown authenticity from the Internet as evidence, and then comprehensively analyze the consistency and contradictions in the evidence to determine authenticity, and analyze and evaluate the impact on society, aiming to create a society in which it is possible to detect and deal with fake information, and will proceed with the construction of the world’s first platform to combat fake information.
This initiative was selected as part of the “Development of Technology Related to Disinformation Analysis” program, which was open to applications from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) under the “Economic Security Key Technology Development Program (commonly known as the K Program),” established by the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and others.

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