GDELT used AI to add 130,000 more TV broadcasts to its archive

Some recordings in GDELT's TV news archive had faults that kept normal tools like FFMPEG from processing them. GDELT used AI 3.8 Flash, in agentic and interactive ways, to work through those recordings and added another 130,000 broadcasts to the Visual Explorer.

How it works

Recordings with faults fail in normal tools like FFMPEG
The AI 3.8 Flash is used in agentic and interactive modes to process them
130,000 broadcasts are added to the Visual Explorer

Why it’s worth knowing

Recordings that normal archive tools could not process at all still made it into the archive, 130,000 of them, once the AI was put on the problem ones.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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