Now that even advanced AI can doctor photos, Adobe wants to control the spread of fake images. The company intends to use its Photoshop software to identify edited images.
Adobe Photoshop’s New Feature
The website Wired reports that Adobe has teamed up with other companies like Twitter and the New York Times to curb doctored photos. To meet its goals, Adobe has launched its Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), together with its partner companies.
Later this year, Adobe plans to integrate the CAI tech into a preview version of Photoshop. Subscribers can see this new feature for themselves once they update. With this tech, Adobe also plans to stop the spread of fake news. Under COVID-19, fake news has become more dangerous.
Adobe wants to make Photoshop a tool for spotting fake photos https://t.co/OMEzqCZJPD pic.twitter.com/UltLVSubjM
— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) August 13, 2020
How Does Adobe Photoshop’s CAI Work?
Gizmodo says that CAI will help people spot fake news by stamping the original photo with encrypted metadata. The data includes the photographer’s name, the timestamp, and the exact location of the picture taking. If someone edited the photo, Adobe would stamp it with the editor’s name.
In Photoshop, users can see the data as soon as they open the photo. Through the CAI recording process, users can see a log of the people who edited the picture. The photo itself saves the record.
Also, CAI gives people information on where the photo appeared on news sites like The New York Times, or social media, like Adobe’s Behance.
The only question is whether users themselves will bother looking up all these data.
Will Adobe Photoshop’s CAI Tech Work?
For the CAI tech to work fully, Gizmodo says that the tech should feature on digital cameras, computers, mobile devices, and social networks. Adobe also has to educate people on how to use CAI to spot fake news.
