§9202 NSF support of research on manipulated or synthesized content and information security

Summary

The Director of the National Science Foundation must fund merit-reviewed, competitively awarded research—after consulting other federal agencies—on altered or computer-made digital content and on ways to verify if information is real. This covers basic work on tools to detect fakes (including content from generative adversarial networks), ID methods like watermarking, social and behavioral studies on how people interact with such content, public education research, and awards coordinated with agencies such as DARPA and IARPA under the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program.