Proving content authenticity is going to be a matter of lineage.
Here’s what I mean. AI companies in consumer interfaces are adding things like watermarks & fingerprints.
But when you dig into the architecture, these artifacts are added AFTER the generation. If you use the actual models themselves, these fingerprints are not part of the generation.
Which means that you have to trust that users will allow systems to add watermarks. If it’s a malicious actor, the likelihood of that is… low.
Take something like the C2PA image certification standard. It’s a system that injects metadata into images that says where the image came from. Platforms like ChatGPT add this data into the image’s metadata.
It’s also trivial to remove or redact because it’s not part of the image itself. No AI image model can create any kind of watermark in the image itself. None. It’s not how diffuser models work.
The same is true for text generation. In clumsy prompts, it’s easy to tell that a piece of text was AI-generated. “In summary, this article delved into…” But today’s state of the art models, with talented prompting, can write in nearly any style, and claims that text can be fingerprinted are mostly hype.
So how do you know what’s authentic? Well, you don’t, except by old-fashioned detective work.
- Is the information published by the source? I saw a post attributed to Celine Dion the other day. I checked her official account and to my surprise, it was actually from her.
- Is the information available across multiple, disparate sources? A photo can be generated. Lots of photos and videos from professional and amateur sources is much harder to stage.
- Is the creation of the content documented? Someone showing the making of content in a series of videos or better, a livestream, is proving the lineage of the content.
As AI tools advance, assume that if someone doesn’t present lineage in some fashion, it may not be true.
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