Abstract
Online misinformation is a prevalent societal issue, with adversaries relying on tools ranging from cheap fakes to sophisticated deep fakes. We are motivated by the threat scenario where an image is used out of context to support a certain narrative. While some prior datasets for detecting image-text inconsistency generate samples via text manipulation, we propose a dataset where both image and text are unmanipulated but mismatched. We introduce several strategies for automatically retrieving convincing images for a given caption, capturing cases with inconsistent entities or semantic context. Our large-scale automatically generated the NewsCLIPpings Dataset: (1) demonstrates that machine-driven image repurposing is now a realistic threat, and (2) provides samples that represent challenging instances of mismatch between text and image in news that are able to mislead humans. We benchmark several state-of-the-art multimodal models on our dataset and analyze their performance across different pretraining domains and visual backbones.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.emnlp-main.545
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6801–6817
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.545
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.545
- Cite (ACL):
- Grace Luo, Trevor Darrell, and Anna Rohrbach. 2021. NewsCLIPpings: Automatic Generation of Out-of-Context Multimodal Media. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 6801–6817, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- NewsCLIPpings: Automatic Generation of Out-of-Context Multimodal Media (Luo et al., EMNLP 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2021.emnlp-main.545.pdf
- Code
- g-luo/news_clippings
- Data
- NewsCLIPpings, Conceptual Captions