Reducing risk posed by synthetic content an overview of technical approaches to digital content transparency
2024
This report examines the existing standards, tools, methods, and practices, as well as the potential development of further science-backed standards and techniques, for: authenticating content and tracking its provenance; labeling synthetic content, such as using watermarking; detecting synthetic content; preventing generative AI (GAI) from producing child sexual abuse material or producing non-consensual intimate imagery of real individuals (to include intimate digital depictions of the body or body parts of an identifiable individual); testing software used for the above purposes; and auditing and maintaining synthetic content.