Adobe wants to create a robot style indicator.

For years, websites included information on the robot type robots were not authorized on their site with a robot.txt file. Adobe, who wishes to create a similar standard for images, added a tool to content identification information with the intention of giving them a little more control over what is used to form AI models.

Convincing AI companies to actually adhere to Adobe’s standard can be the main challenge, in particular given AI robots are already known To ignore requests In the robots.txt. deposit.

Content identification information is information in the metadata of a multimedia file used to identify authenticity and property. This is a type of implementation of the coalition for content provenance and authenticity (C2PA), a standard for the authenticity of the content.

Adobe publishes a new web tool to allow creators to attach content identification information to all image files, even if they are not created or modified via its own tools. In addition, this allows creators to report to AI companies that they should not use this particular image for training models.

Adobe’s new web application, called Adobe Content Authenticity application, allows users to reach their identification information, including name and social media accounts, to a file. Users can attach this identification information to up to 50 JPG or PNG files at once.

Adobe joins LinkedIn with Use the platform check program belonging to Microsoft. This helps to prove that the person who attaches identification information to an image has an verified name on LinkedIn.

Users can also attach their Instagram or X profiles to an image, but there is no integration with the verification of these platforms.

The same application allows users to check a box to point out that their images should not be used for model formation.

Although the field is present on the application and thereafter on the metadata of an image with content identification information, Adobe has not signed any agreement with any of the creators of AI models to adopt this standard. The company said it was in talks with all the best IA model developers to convince them to use and comply with this standard.

Adobe’s intentions are in the right place to provide an indicator to model manufacturers for AI training data, but the initiative will not work if companies do not accept the standard or do not comply with the indicator.

Last year, the implementation by Meta of labels on automatic images on its platform caused a tumult The photographers complained that their modified images were labeled with a “Made with IA” label. Meta later changed the label to “IA info”.

This development stressed that if Meta and Adobe are both part of the C2PA steering committee, there is a difference in implementation on different platforms.

Andy Parson, principal director of Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe, said that the company had built the new content identification application with creators. Since regulations concerning copyright and AI training data are dispersed around the world, the company wishes to give creators a means of reporting their intention on AI platforms with the application.

“Content creators want a simple way to indicate that they do not want their content to be used for Gen ia training. We have heard small creators and agencies that they want more control over their creations (in terms of AI training on their content),” Parson told Techcrunch.

Adobe also publishes a Chrome extension so that users can identify images with content identification information.

The company said that with the application of content identification content, it uses a mixture of Digital digital imprint, open source watermark and cryptographic metadata To integrate metadata into various pixels of an image, so even if the image is modified, the metadata remain intact. This means that users can use the Chrome extension to verify content identification information on platforms like Instagram which do not natively support the standard. Users will see a small “CR” symbol on an image if they have content identification information attached to them.

In a world where there are a lot of debates on AI and art, Parson says that C2PA does not believe in the opinion or the realization of what art is. But he thinks that content titles could be an important marker for property.

“There is the gray area (from the moment an image is modified using AI, but it is not 100% generated by AI), and what we say is to allow artists and creators to sign their work and claim the award for this.

Adobe is said that if his new tool is designed for images, he also wishes to add the management of video and audio.