Adobe将推出新的Web应用及Chrome扩展，用于检查内容元数据。该应用可让用户为图像、视频和音频添加创作者信息，还能选择将作品排除在生成式AI模型之外。它是Adobe现有Content Credentials平台的集中枢纽，能广泛应用于各种文件，且相关标签难以去除。该应用将于2025年第一季度推出公测版，需免费Adobe账号。但该计划的成功取决于有多少科技和AI公司支持，这是个问题。

🎨Adobe推出免费Web应用，可将创作者信息快速应用于图像、视频和音频等内容，包含创作者姓名、网站、社交媒体页面等，还能批量选择作品不参与AI训练。

💻该Web应用是Content Credentials平台的集中枢纽，可与Adobe的Firefly AI模型及Photoshop、Lightroom等Creative Cloud应用集成，且能应用于非Adobe应用制作的文件。

🛡️用户可通过该应用设置生成式AI偏好，保护作品不被用于或训练生成式AI模型。相关标签难以去除，通过数字指纹、隐形水印和加密元数据等方式保护，即便作品被截图。

🔍应用包含检查工具，可在信息未展示的网站上恢复并显示Content Credentials及编辑历史，Google Chrome的扩展也能直接在网页上检查内容。

Adobe is expanding its Content Credentials “nutrition labels” to make it even easier for creatives to be credited for their work, identify what is and isn’t AI online, and protect their content in the process. It’s launching a free web app that will allow users to quickly apply creator information to images, videos, and audio and even opt them out of generative AI models — for the AI developers that support it, at least.

The Content Authenticity web app can be used to widely apply attribution data to content that contains the creator’s name, website, social media pages, and more. It also provides an easier way for creatives to opt their work out of AI training en mass compared to laboriously submitting individual protections for their content to each AI provider.

The web app will act as a centralized hub for Adobe’s existing Content Credentials platform. Content Credentials are tamper-evident metadata that can be embedded into digital content to disclose who owns and created it and if AI tools were used to make it. The web app will integrate with Adobe’s Firefly AI models, alongside Photoshop, Lightroom, and other Creative Cloud apps that already support Content Credentials individually. And importantly, the hub will allow creatives to apply Content Credentials to any image, video, and audio file — not just those made using Adobe’s apps.

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The Content Authenticity web app also lets users set generative AI preferences to protect their work from being used by or to train generative AI models. Adobe’s own models are only trained on licensed or public domain content, but these protections are designed to be broadly applied to models produced by other companies — as long as those companies support it. Right now, the list is short: only Spawning, the startup known best for creating the “Have I Been Trained?” tool for checking AI training databases, has committed to supporting the feature right now. Adobe says it’s “actively working to drive industry-wide adoption of this preference.” We can hope that AI providers like OpenAI and Google that already support Content Credentials will follow suit.

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These attribution and AI preference tags will be harder to remove because everything linked to Content Credentials can be restored using a combination of digital fingerprinting, invisible watermarking, and cryptographic metadata, even if someone takes a screenshot of the protected work, according to Adobe. It’s not an entirely bulletproof solution, but it does mean that anyone looking to circumvent these protections will have to do more work.

Adobe is also making it easier to check if something has Content Credentials applied on websites that don’t present that information to their users, like Meta’s “AI Info” tags. The Content Authenticity web app includes an inspect tool that will recover and display Content Credentials and editing history where it’s available, and a Content Authenticity extension for Google Chrome launching in beta today will be able to inspect content directly on a webpage.

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The Content Authenticity web app is launching in public beta sometime in Q1 2025 and will require a free Adobe account but not an active subscription to any Adobe services. This huge update to the C2PA-supported Content Credentials system addresses many of the recurring criticisms that creatives have raised, particularly around access and durability. That could help Adobe win back some of the trust it’s lost with the creative community following complaints about being locked into pricey subscriptions and confusion around the company’s own generative AI adoption.

But one glaring issue remains: while Adobe has attracted 3,700 companies and organizations to back its Content Authenticity Initiative to date, the scheme is ultimately voluntary, which means its success is tied to how many tech and AI companies Adobe can get to support it.