Subj : Adobes new free web app will protect your content from being stol To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Oct 08 2024 14:15:04 Adobes new free web app will protect your content from being stolen by AI online Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000 Description: Adobe is introducing Content Credentials to images, audio and video on the web to protect artists. FULL STORY ====================================================================== It used to be fairly easy to spot AI images - everybody had six fingers and an extra limb or two, but as AI evolves its getting harder and harder to spot the difference between real art and AI. Worse still, AI is being trained on artists' work without their permission and without them being compensated. Creatives arent necessarily opposed to AI many can see the benefits of using AI tools, especially when it comes to automating mundane tasks but there are real concerns that AI is stealing peoples artwork, learning from it, then regurgitating knock-off copies in an artists style. In an effort to protect artists' work, Adobe is launching a new, free, web app designed to protect artists online. We talked to Andy Parsons, Senior Director and Head of the Adobe Content Authenticity Initiative about its new Content Credentials scheme. Transparency is the most important foundational concept to provide an objective shared sense of whats fact, whats real, who gets credit for things, said Parsons. Weve been working on developing an open source code, open standards that will be ratified by the International Standard Organization. Fingers crossed, that will happen this year or next year. Adobes answer is to attach Content Credentials to images so that you can see at a glance how they were created and by whom. The way Adobe wants you to think about Content Credentials is like a nutrition label on your groceries, showing you where the food came from. We think the same is true and very necessary for digital content where we want the judgment about where something came from, whether to trust it or not, whether it is a photograph or not a photograph, to be really in the hands of the consumer, explained Parsons. Content Credentials being applied to images in a batch. (Image credit: Adobe) The new CR icon To show an image has Content Credentials a little CR icon appears over the image and can be clicked on. At the moment the CR icon requires a Google Chrome extension to be visible, but once clicked on you get a whole range of information about the providence of the image. Adobe has high hopes for the widespread adoption of the technology. We think this could become as ubiquitous as a copyright symbol, explains Parsons. When it comes to protecting artists work online from being crawled by AI bots and used to train AI models, Adobe thinks its solution can come to the rescue there as well. You can indicate in Content Credentials if you dont want your artwork to be used in training AI models. Obviously thats going to depend on how scrupulous the AI companies are and if they respect the wishes of the content creators, but Adobe has got many of the big names to sign up to its plan. We are working hard to get this adopted by the biggest names in AI. Were not necessarily seeing any resistance, but there is a sense that some will wait for legislation. Others will go ahead and say Yeah, you know this is a reasonable thing that creators want and wed like to provide it. So, I think well see broad adoption and it will take us some time but we are working with [...] specific folks like Spawning, the world's largest opt-out registry. Whenever spawning encounters this setting, when people opt-out, it will add that to its registry. So were excited about that. We know some social media sites dont show content credentials in a visible way yet so were bridging that gap with our extension for Chrome. The Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative has 3,700 members including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and more who are putting Content Credentials to work in their products. Notably the list includes about 90% of the cameras market, including Sony, Leica, and Fuji, with several cameras coming to market this year that have Content Credentials built into the device. Social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube will also be embracing its Content Credentials. The Chrome extension for viewing Content Credentials. (Image credit: Adobe) Coming in beta Adobes solution is open source and works independently of its Creative Suite applications, so it can be applied to any image, for free. From today youll be able to sign up to be notified when the beta is available . We expect it to go live between December and February. Access to a free beta version of the Content Authority extension for Google Chrome is available today. With Content Authenticity you can apply Content Credentials in batch to your images, audio, and video, and once its been added, it cant be removed. Parsons describes it as durable. We did wonder if there would be an arms race between people like Adobe working to add Content Credentials and hackers trying to remove them, This is always a concern, but this is a very strong countermeasure against copyright theft and the ability to be recognized through your work, he replied. You might also like... 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