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ChatGPT will digitally tag images generated by DALL-E 3 to help battle misinformation
In an age where fraudsters are using generative AI to scam money or tarnish one’s reputation, tech firms are coming up with methods to help users verify content — at least still images, to begin with. As teased in its 2024 misinformation strategy, OpenAI is now including provenance metadata in images generated with ChatGPT on the web and DALL-E 3 API, with their mobile counterparts receiving the same upgrade by February 12.
The metadata follows the C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) open standard, and when one such image is uploaded to the Content Credentials Verify tool, you’ll be able to trace its provenance lineage. For instance, an image generated using ChatGPT will show an initial metadata manifest indicating its DALL-E 3 API origin, followed by a second metadata manifest showing that it surfaced in ChatGPT.
Despite the fancy cryptographic tech behind the C2PA standard, this verification method only works when the metadata is intact; the tool is of no use if you upload an AI-generated image sans metadata — as is the case with any screenshot or uploaded image on social media. Unsurprisingly, the current sample images on the official DALL-E 3 page returned blank as well. On its FAQ page, OpenAI admits that this isn’t a silver bullet to addressing the misinformation war, but it believes that the key is to encourage users to actively look for such signals.
While OpenAI’s latest effort on thwarting fake content is currently limited to still images, Google’s DeepMind already has SynthID for digitally watermarking both images and audio generated by AI. Meanwhile, Meta has been testing invisible watermarking via its AI image generator, which may be less prone to tampering.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/chatgpt-will-digitally-tag-images-generated-by-dall-e-3-to-help-battle-misinformation-102514822.html?src=rss
ChatGPT will digitally tag images generated by DALL-E 3 to help battle misinformation
In an age where fraudsters are using generative AI to scam money or tarnish one’s reputation, tech firms are coming up with methods to help users verify content — at least still images, to begin with. As teased in its 2024 misinformation strategy, OpenAI is now including provenance metadata in images generated with ChatGPT on the web and DALL-E 3 API, with their mobile counterparts receiving the same upgrade by February 12.
The metadata follows the C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) open standard, and when one such image is uploaded to the Content Credentials Verify tool, you’ll be able to trace its provenance lineage. For instance, an image generated using ChatGPT will show an initial metadata manifest indicating its DALL-E 3 API origin, followed by a second metadata manifest showing that it surfaced in ChatGPT.
Despite the fancy cryptographic tech behind the C2PA standard, this verification method only works when the metadata is intact; the tool is of no use if you upload an AI-generated image sans metadata — as is the case with any screenshot or uploaded image on social media. Unsurprisingly, the current sample images on the official DALL-E 3 page returned blank as well. On its FAQ page, OpenAI admits that this isn’t a silver bullet to addressing the misinformation war, but it believes that the key is to encourage users to actively look for such signals.
While OpenAI’s latest effort on thwarting fake content is currently limited to still images, Google’s DeepMind already has SynthID for digitally watermarking both images and audio generated by AI. Meanwhile, Meta has been testing invisible watermarking via its AI image generator, which may be less prone to tampering.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/chatgpt-will-digitally-tag-images-generated-by-dall-e-3-to-help-battle-misinformation-102514822.html?src=rss
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ROG Ally aims to take on Steam Deck with $699.99 price tag, according to leak
Asus announced its Steam Deck competitor, the ROG Ally, on April 1 without a release date, a spec sheet, or a price.
Thanks to a recent leak, we may know a little more about the handheld gaming system and how much the higher spec’d offering will cost.
According to various leakers (thanks, The Verge), the higher-end Asus ROG Ally features a 7-inch FHD 120Hz screen, houses an AMD Z1 Extreme, comes with a 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD, 16GB LPDDR5, features AMD Radeon Navi3 Graphics, and Dolby Atmos Surround Sound (per SnoopyTech).
Deals: Amazon Expands M1 iMac Sale to Include More Colors at $999.99 Price Tag ($499 Off)
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Colors on sale include Yellow, Purple, Orange, and Pink. Shipping estimates have slipped into the middle of May with the fastest options, and as far into early June for some. This is quite a discount, so we recommend getting your order in as soon as possible if you’re interested; these have been known to disappear quickly.
With this discount, the 8-Core/256GB model is now cheaper than the entry-level 7-Core/256GB model, which has only ever reached as low as $1,099.00 in previous sales. The M1 iMac first launched two years ago in April 2021, and it features a 24-inch 4.5K Retina display, M1 chip, Touch ID keyboard, and more.
If you’re on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week.
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The Last Case of Benedict Fox, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Redfall, others coming to Game Pass
Microsoft has announced the next round of titles coming to Game Pass in April and early May.
Minecraft Legends is already available, and Redfall is out on May 2, as you are well aware, so we won’t bore you with those details.
However, other games will arrive on the service this month to close out April.
Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Redfall, The Last Case of Benedict Fox, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, and More
Smart garments: Your next jacket might come with a futuristic tag
At this year’s London Fashion Week, the growing intersection between fashion and technology took an innovative form: digital clothing tags.
Backstage at the Ahluwalia show in February, I saw these tags attached to pieces from the British brand’s latest collection, in a partnership with Microsoft and software platform EON. In place of the average, flimsy clothing tag (which are usually swiftly removed after purchasing an item), these versions each feature a QR code. When scanned, the tags unveil a bundle of information about the garment: how Ahluwalia manufactured it, insight into the supply chain, the item’s lifecycle, and even the creative process — including the kind of music designer Priya Ahluwalia listened to during its making.
EON’s mission is to improve traceability and enable the circularity of garments. A slew of luxury brands, including Prada, Coach, and Ralph Lauren are looking to introduce some form of digital product IDs or have already done so, as a component of a larger goal to incorporate sustainable and technologically-advanced practices more staunchly into their businesses. Amazon Style, which opened its first physical store in California last year, has similarly added QR-laden tags to its clothes, which lean more toward details like sizing and customer ratings of their products, rather than information about Amazon’s manufacturing process.
Credit: Microsoft.
Circular fashion, a concept often relegated to a buzzword, is something brands increasingly strive to deliver. Circularity, in this regard, is the ability to repurpose and reuse clothing. Fashion is amongst the most polluting industries on the planet, producing 20 percent of global wastewater and 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. A collective push to shed this reputation and increase sustainability has been amplified in past years — not to mention the booming secondhand clothing market is estimated to be worth $350 billion by 2027.
A recent report from U.N. Climate Change and CDP shows that the fashion industry is finally making tangible changes to achieve sustainability and take action against climate change. But there is work to be done: greenwashing is still rife when it comes to high street labels; fast-fashion presents enormous challenges. Wearing then throwing away fashion is still a major issue: 92 million tonnes of textiles end up in landfills each year. By 2030, it is estimated that this number will increase to 134 million tonnes of waste annually.
Many in the fashion industry believe technology like digital IDs hold potential for effective change. In this case, the tags act as a sort of passport for a garment, providing a holistic, end-to-end overview for the product. They ultimately deliver a blueprint coveted trinity: resale (the most environmentally-friendly tactic when it comes to fashion), repair, and recycle.
For Natasha Franck, the founder and CEO of EON, digital IDs — in the form of QR codes or NFC tags — hold the potential to turn “simple products” into “traceable and valuable assets”.
“Products become immersive media channels, connecting brands directly to their customers, on-demand,” she tells Mashable. “Customers can scan their items with their phone and discover in-depth information about where and how they were made, or access services such as styling, care, repair, resale and more.”
These bits of “embedded information”, as Franck puts it, transform pieces of clothing into smart garments, which can massively support brands and people entering the resale market, in particular. EON is developing an Instant Resale program, through which users can scan their product’s digital ID and instantly resell. The startup is currently working with French luxury brand Chloé and fashion resale site Vestiaire Collective on this initiative.
Maruschka Loubser, director of global partnerships at Microsoft, tells Mashable digital ID tags, like those in the company’s partnership with Ahluwalia and EON, are “an important part of the future of fashion” due to their ability to promote circularity creatively.
“Digital IDs enable authenticated resale, rental and service business models — turning products into a service,” Loubser explains. “In general, if a garment is smart it allows for multiple interactions it taking it from a linear business model to a circular — it also enables the garment transparency whether it is being re-sold, rented, recycled or upcycled.”
“Digital IDs enable authenticated resale, rental and service business models — turning products into a service.”
This isn’t the first time Microsoft has forayed into fashion, recently dipping into the junction where AI meets design with Portugal-based company Fashable to create “an AI algorithm that can generate original clothing designs, helping fashion companies to meet customer demand, get to market faster, and reduce clothing waste.”
Credit: Microsoft.
The ubiquity of these tags is growing. In fact, the European Union proposed a standardized practice of digital passports for textiles last March, a facet of its Circular Economy Action Plan which is part of the EU’s larger 2050 climate neutrality target and the European Green Deal.
Still, consumer attitudes may have to shift. The Sustainability Consortium, a global non-profit with a focus on the consumer goods industry, conducted a 2020 study that concluded, “Digital tags can measure the frequency and duration of clothing use with reasonable reliability.” The organization found that there are some constraints to scaling the idea more broadly, but consumer attitudes towards these tags became increasingly positive. Yoox Net-A-Porter Group, a global online retailer that also works with EON “to accelerate circularity”, found in its research that customers progressively engaged with the information provided via the tags. In 2021, the company found that 39 percent of shoppers viewed information about the care of a product, while 47 percent viewed details about transparency.
Franck says that brands adopting technology in this manner will be able to “outperform others” in the realm of sustainability. She also believes the possibilities for this technology are massive for development in other spaces, with the potential to connect products with “emerging technologies like digital wardrobes, gaming and metaverse apps, NFTs and more.”
“Brands who succeed will move beyond selling ‘simple products’ to selling ‘intelligent assets’,” she says. “The possibilities are endless, and there is still so much innovation to come.”