# Site

## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Assignment 3: Cross-Examination](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/assessments/cross-examination/): Arguing both sides of a real provenance dispute before you're allowed to reach a verdict
- [Assignment 1: First Forensics](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/assessments/first-forensics/): A single passage of text, two independent checks, and a verdict you can defend to someone assigned to disagree with you
- [Assignment 2: The Full Workup](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/assessments/the-full-workup/): A mixed-media case worked with at least three independent methods, written up as a forensic report
- [Assignment 4: The Slop Report](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/assessments/the-slop-report/): An independent investigation into a real, self-chosen case of suspected synthetic content, written for a public audience
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [The forensic turn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-01/): Why "is this real?" became a methods question, and how a course about bullshit became a course about slop
- [Verification as a practice](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-02/): SIFT, lateral reading, and why "critically ignoring" something is a skill in its own right
- [Textual tells](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-03/): How language models give themselves away, and why every reliable tell has a half-life
- [Pixels don't lie (usually)](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-04/): An introduction to image forensics, from reverse search to GAN fingerprints
- [Faces that never existed](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-05/): Deepfakes, voice cloning, and two real fraud cases that changed how the field takes the threat
- [Invisible ink](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-06/): Watermarking synthetic media, and how quickly a robust-sounding signal turns out not to be
- [Chain of custody](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-07/): Content provenance, the C2PA standard, and what it means to sign a file's history rather than guess at it
- [The arms race](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-08/): Why detectors keep failing, and what it means that an entire industry now exists to defeat them
- [Slop at work](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-09/): Workslop, the office's own version of the problem, and why it hides in plain sight
- [Who's watching](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-10/): Platforms, disclosure rules and content moderation at a scale no human team can read
- [The ethics of accusation](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-11/): What forensic work owes the person on the other end of a wrong verdict
- [Closing arguments](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/lectures/week-12/): What eleven weeks of casework add up to, and where the discipline goes from here
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Elena Kowalczyk](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/people/elena-kowalczyk/): Tutor covering workplace slop and investigative writing, and the final case presentations
- [Jonah Whitfield](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/people/jonah-whitfield/): Tutor covering content provenance standards, platform policy and disclosure regulation
- [Naledi Mokoena](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/people/naledi-mokoena/): Tutor covering digital literacy and verification method, from lateral reading to textual forensics
- [Dr Priya Nandakumar](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/people/priya-nandakumar/): The convenor, responsible for the course's overall shape and for the opening and closing weeks that hold it together
- [Ravi Chandrasekaran](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/people/ravi-chandrasekaran/): Tutor covering image, video and watermarking forensics, and the tools behind each
- [Prof Tomas Vidergar](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/people/tomas-vidergar/): Co-convenor, working on the philosophy of technology and the intellectual history that runs from bullshit to slop
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
- [Scene of the crime](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-01-scene-of-the-crime/): The first casework session — establishing the difference between a hunch and evidence, before you're given any tools to tell them apart
- [Your first SIFT](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-02-your-first-sift/): Running the four SIFT moves on a real, currently-circulating claim, in order, without skipping ahead
- [The text workup](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-03-the-text-workup/): Applying independent textual checks to the same passage, and reconciling it when they disagree
- [The image workup](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-04-the-image-workup/): Running a reverse image search and an automated detector on the same image, and taking their disagreement seriously
- [The video workup](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-05-the-video-workup/): Working out which of this week's checks you can actually apply to a short clip, and which you can't
- [Watermark hunting](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-06-watermark-hunting/): Embedding a watermark, then trying to destroy it through nothing more hostile than ordinary handling
- [The full workup](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-07-the-full-workup/): Combining independent methods from weeks 3 to 7 into one report on a mixed-media case, with a confidence level the evidence actually earns
- [Breaking a detector](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-08-breaking-a-detector/): Trying to make your own content evade a detector, and taking your success or failure seriously as evidence
- [The office file](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-09-the-office-file/): Reviewing a sample workplace document for workslop indicators without assuming bad faith on the part of whoever wrote it
- [Drafting a policy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-10-drafting-a-policy/): Writing one clause of a synthetic-media disclosure policy that handles a case the real-world example didn't
- [Cross-examination](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-11-cross-examination/): Arguing both sides of a real provenance dispute before you're allowed to reach a verdict
- [The Slop Report](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-JamesYE03/sessions/case-12-the-slop-report/): Final case presentations, and the submission of a full independent investigation