It’s make or break time for AI labelling systems
If robust AI labelling was in place when these swagged out images of Pope Francis went viral, it may have been easier for people to tell they were fake. | Image: via Reddit / u/trippy_art_special We're about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up to snuff. SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials, two distinct technologies for invisibly tagging image, video, and audio files with information about their origins, are getting their biggest expansion to date, and with it, the opportunity to turn the tide against unlabelled AI fakery that's deceiving people online. Yesterday during its I/O conference, Google announced that the ability to verify whether images carry SynthID markers - the invisible watermarking system that's applied to content generated by Google AI models - … Read the full story at The Verge.