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Google Photos will show when images have been modified with AI

2024-10-24 17:02 by
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Starting next week, the Google Photos app will add a new disclosure for when a photo has been edited with one of its AI features, such as Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, and Zoom Enhance. When you click into a photo in Google Photos, there will now be a disclosure when you scroll to the bottom of the "Details" section, noting when a photo was "Edited with Google AI."

Google says it's introducing this disclosure to "further improve transparency," however, it's still not that obvious when a photo is edited by AI. There still won't be visual watermarks within the frame of a picture indicating that a photo is AI generated. If someone sees a photo edited by Google's AI on social media, in a text message, or even while scrolling through their photos app, they won't immediately see that the photo is synthetic.

"Photos edited with tools like Magic Editor, Magic Eraser and Zoom Enhance already include metadata based on technical standards from The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) to indicate that they've been edited using generative AI," John Fisher, engineering director of Google Photos, wrote in a blog post. "Now we're taking it a step further, making this information visible alongside information like the file name, location and backup status in the Photos app."

The proliferation of Google's AI image tools could increase the amount of synthetic content people view on the internet, making it harder to discern what's real and what's fake. The approach Google has taken, using metadata watermarks, relies on platforms to indicate to users that they're viewing AI generated content. Meta is already doing this on Facebook and Instagram, and Google says it plans to flag AI images in Search later this year. But other platforms have been slower to catch up.

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