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Yomiuri Shimbun
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun Joins CAI to Combat Fake Information Online; Members of Intl Group Include Media, Camera Makers, Tech Firms
Yomiuri Shimbun file photo The Yomiuri Shimbun's Tokyo head office building in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo The Yomiuri Shimbun has joined the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), an international organization that develops tools to improve media transparency, to help combat fake information found online, the company announced Tuesday. The CAI has promoted the use of technology for data provenance for such online content as images and video clips. The CAI intends to accelerate the adoption of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a technical standard which is being developed by companies, including Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Inc. Media companies, camera makers, tech companies and other entities worldwide are members of the CAI and are taking various measures against the falsification of images and videos. The Yomiuri Shimbun has been making efforts for the implementation of the Originator Profile, which is a technology used to confirm the authenticity of posts found online. If both technologies are used, measures to combat fake information will be strengthened and digital spaces will become safer.
Mint
14-05-2025
- Mint
TikTok's AI Alive lets users bring photos to life with text prompts: All you need to know
TikTok has unveiled a new artificial intelligence feature that allows users to convert still images into animated videos. The feature, calledAI Alive, is the platform's latest step into generative AI, and marks the first time a major video-centric social media app has introduced image-to-video creation using artificial intelligence. Currently available exclusively for TikTok Stories, the AI-powered tool enables users to animate photographs by selecting an image from their Story Album and entering a short text prompt. The feature can be accessed by tapping the blue plus (+) icon at the top of either the Inbox or Profile pages, followed by selecting an image. Once on the editing screen, users will find the AI Alive button positioned second from the top in the toolbar on the right. After tapping the icon, a new window opens where users can input their own animation prompt or select from a range of suggested ideas. Once the prompt is submitted, the tool generates a brief video that can be posted directly to the user's Story. These AI-created stories are viewable through theFor You andFollowing feeds, as well as on individual profiles. TikTok has emphasised safety and responsibility in the rollout of AI Alive. To mitigate misuse, the platform has integrated several layers of moderation. Every image, prompt, and resulting video is reviewed by moderation technology before the video becomes visible to its creator. A final check is performed prior to public posting. In addition, users are encouraged to report any content that they believe violates community guidelines. To ensure transparency, all videos created with AI Alive will carry a visible 'AI-generated' label, said the company. The platform is also embedding C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) metadata into these videos — a standard that helps verify the authenticity and origin of AI-generated content. While TikTok takes the lead in this space, rival platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, and X currently lack similar AI video creation tools. YouTube Shorts has begun experimenting with a text-to-video generator, but it remains in limited testing.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Yahoo
TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, a new image-to-video tool
TikTok is launching its first image-to-video AI feature, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature is called "TikTok AI Alive" and allows users to turn static photos into videos within TikTok Stories. The feature is only accessible via TikTok's Story Camera and uses AI to create short-form videos with "movement, atmospheric and creative effects," TikTok says. For instance, if your static photo features a sky, clouds, and the ocean, TikTok could turn the photo into a video where the sky gradually shifts hues, the clouds start to drift, and you hear the sound of waves crashing. Or, you could animate a group selfie that highlights gestures and expressions. The launch of the new image-to-video features comes a few years after TikTok introduced an in-app text-to-image AI generator. While both Instagram and Snapchat also offer text-to-image AI features for creators, TikTok is now taking a step further by offering its users the ability to create videos from images. It's worth noting that Snapchat has said it will soon allow creators to generate AI videos from images. AI Alive stories will have an AI-generated label to notify users that the content was created with AI. Plus, this content will have C2PA metadata embedded, which is a technical standard that helps others identify that the video is AI-generated, even if it's downloaded and shared beyond TikTok. "We are always building with safety in mind, and the same goes for our AI innovations," TikTok said in a blog post. "As this technology enables new forms of creative expression, it undergoes multiple trust and safety checks to protect our community. To help prevent people from creating content that violates our policies, moderation technology reviews the uploaded photo and written AI generation prompt as well as the AI Alive video before it's shown to the creator." TikTok notes that people can report videos that they think break the app's rules, and that the app conducts a final safety check once a creator shares an AI Alive story. Creators can create an AI Alive video by opening the Story Camera and tapping the blue plus button on the top of the Inbox page or Profile page. From there, you can choose a photo from your Story Album. You will then see the AI Alive icon on the right side toolbar on the photo edit page. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Yahoo
TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, a new image-to-video tool
TikTok is launching its first image-to-video AI feature, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature is called "TikTok AI Alive" and allows users to turn static photos into videos within TikTok Stories. The feature is only accessible via TikTok's Story Camera and uses AI to create short-form videos with "movement, atmospheric and creative effects," TikTok says. For instance, if your static photo features a sky, clouds, and the ocean, TikTok could turn the photo into a video where the sky gradually shifts hues, the clouds start to drift, and you hear the sound of waves crashing. Or, you could animate a group selfie that highlights gestures and expressions. The launch of the new image-to-video features comes a few years after TikTok introduced an in-app text-to-image AI generator. While both Instagram and Snapchat also offer text-to-image AI features for creators, TikTok is now taking a step further by offering its users the ability to create videos from images. It's worth noting that Snapchat has said it will soon allow creators to generate AI videos from images. AI Alive stories will have an AI-generated label to notify users that the content was created with AI. Plus, this content will have C2PA metadata embedded, which is a technical standard that helps others identify that the video is AI-generated, even if it's downloaded and shared beyond TikTok. "We are always building with safety in mind, and the same goes for our AI innovations," TikTok said in a blog post. "As this technology enables new forms of creative expression, it undergoes multiple trust and safety checks to protect our community. To help prevent people from creating content that violates our policies, moderation technology reviews the uploaded photo and written AI generation prompt as well as the AI Alive video before it's shown to the creator." TikTok notes that people can report videos that they think break the app's rules, and that the app conducts a final safety check once a creator shares an AI Alive story. Creators can create an AI Alive video by opening the Story Camera and tapping the blue plus button on the top of the Inbox page or Profile page. From there, you can choose a photo from your Story Album. You will then see the AI Alive icon on the right side toolbar on the photo edit page.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Adobe wants to create a robots.txt styled indicator for images used in AI training
For years, websites included information about what kind of crawlers were not allowed on their site with a file. Adobe, which wants to create a similar standard for images, has added a tool to content credentials with an intention to give them a bit more control over what is used to train AI models. Convincing AI companies to actually adhere to Adobe's standard may be the primary challenge, especially considering AI crawlers are already known to ignore requests in the file. Content credentials are information in a media file's metadata used to identify authenticity and ownership. It's a type of implementation of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a standard for content authenticity. Adobe is releasing a new web tool to let creators attach content credentials to all image files, even if they are not created or edited through its own tools. Plus, it's providing a way for creators to signal to AI companies that they shouldn't use that particular image for training models. Adobe's new web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity App, lets users attach their credentials, including name and social media accounts, to a file. Users can attach these credentials to up to 50 JPG or PNG files in one go. Adobe is partnering with LinkedIn to make use of the Microsoft-owned platform's verification program. This helps in proving that the person attaching the credentials to an image has a verified name on LinkedIn. Users can also attach their Instagram or X profiles to an image, but there is no integration with verification of these platforms. The same app lets users tick a box to signal their images shouldn't be used for model training. While the field is present on the app and subsequently on an image's metadata with content credentials, Adobe hasn't signed an agreement with any of the AI model creators to adopt this standard. The company said it's in talks with all top AI model developers to convince them to use and respect this standard. Adobe's intentions are in the right place to provide an indicator to model makers for AI training data, but the initiative won't work if the companies don't agree to the standard or don't respect the indicator. Last year, Meta's implementation of labels to auto-tag images on its platform caused an uproar as photographers complained about their edited images being tagged with a "Made with AI" label. Meta later changed the label to "AI info." This development highlighted that while Meta and Adobe both are part of the C2PA steering committee, there is a difference in implementation across different platforms. Andy Parson, Senior Director of the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe, said the company built the new content credential app with creators. Given that regulations around copyright and AI training data are scattered across the world, the company wants to give creators a way to signal their intent about AI platforms with the app. "Content creators want a simple way to indicate that they don't want their content to be used for gen AI training. We have heard from small creators and agencies that they want more control over their creations [in terms of AI training on their content]," Parson told TechCrunch. Adobe is also releasing a Chrome extension for users to identify images with content credentials. The company said with the content credentials app, it uses a mix of digital fingerprinting, open source watermarking, and crypto metadata to embed metadata in various pixels of an image, so even if the image is modified, the metadata stays intact. This means users can use the Chrome extension to check content credentials on platforms like Instagram that don't natively support the standard. Users will see a small "CR" symbol on an image if they have content credentials attached to them. In a world where there is a lot of debate around AI and art, Parson says C2PA doesn't believe in opining or directing what is art. But he believes content credentials could be an important marker for ownership. "There is the grey area [of when an image is edited using AI, but it is not 100% AI-generated], and what we are saying is to allow artists and creators to sign their work and claim attribution for it. This doesn't mean the IP is legitimate or it is copyrightable, but just indicates that someone made it," Parson said. Adobe is said while its new tool is designed for images, it wants to add support for video and audio down the line as well. Sign in to access your portfolio
