BBC-Pair Dataset: A dataset for training and evaluating detection of ai-generated media

Artificial intelligence generated content has become common place in the modern world. Not all this content is inherently nefarious, but some poses a significant risk to pursuit of truth and some even aims to deliberately poison objective reality for personal, political or monetary gain.

Artificial Intelligence generated content is becoming the cornerstone of new targeted hacking schemes, in some circumstances changing the narratives of politically charged stories. And is increasingly used by figureheads of society to gain quick clicks, or to refute the actual true series of events.

We believe that artificially generated content will have a measurably detrimental impact on the pursuit of facts and hence journalism.

We look to a future where we can equip journalists with the tools, they need to be able to combat this new enemy in the pursuit of factual reporting.

All good detection tools start off with a dataset that can be used to train and test the tool. As such this white paper covers the rationale, creation and distribution of the BBC- PAIR dataset.

We hope this dataset will be adopted by the research community to push the boundaries of possibility when it comes to detection of artificial intelligence generated content.

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