Other companies are also working on similar transparency measures. Google uses metadata to label its AI-generated images, while Adobe uses a more elaborate approach called content credentials, which details who made AI-related changes and with what editing tools. This approach is supported by camera makers including Sony and Nikon. Despite the possibility of people removing Samsung's metadata and watermarks, it's believed that the approach would help alert people that generative AI was used to change a photo.
Key takeaways:
- Samsung's new Galaxy S24 phones will use a version of Google's generative AI technology for editing photos and will add a quartet of stars to the lower left corner of the photo to indicate the use of AI.
- Samsung will also add invisible text called metadata into the photo file that declares the photo to have been modified by AI.
- This move is a response to concerns that AI could distort the truth in photos, and the use of watermarks and metadata can provide some transparency.
- Other companies like Google and Adobe are also working on transparency measures, with Adobe using a more elaborate approach called content credentials to detail who made AI-related changes and with what editing tools.