OpenAI engaged on new AI picture detection instruments

OpenAI has added a brand new device to detect if a picture was made with its DALL-E AI picture generator, in addition to new watermarking strategies to extra clearly flag content material it generates.

In a weblog put up, OpenAI introduced that it has begun creating new provenance strategies to trace content material and show whether or not it was AI-generated. These embrace a brand new picture detection classifier that makes use of AI to find out whether or not the picture was AI-generated, in addition to a tamper-resistant watermark that may tag content material like audio with invisible alerts. 

The classifier predicts the chance {that a} image was created by DALL-E 3. OpenAI claims the classifier works even when the picture is cropped or compressed or the saturation is modified. Whereas the device can detect if photographs have been made with DALL-E 3 with round 98 p.c accuracy, its efficiency at determining if the content material was from different AI fashions isn’t nearly as good, flagging solely 5 to 10 p.c of images from different picture mills, like Midjourney.  

OpenAI beforehand added content material credentials to picture metadata from the Coalition of Content material Provenance and Authority (C2PA). Content material credentials are basically watermarks that embrace details about who owns the picture and the way it was created. OpenAI, together with corporations like Microsoft and Adobe, is a member of C2PA. This month, OpenAI additionally joined C2PA’s steering committee. 

Each the picture classifier and the audio watermarking sign are nonetheless being refined. OpenAI says it must get suggestions from customers to check its effectiveness. Researchers and nonprofit journalism teams can take a look at the picture detection classifier by making use of it to OpenAI’s analysis entry platform. 

OpenAI has been engaged on detecting AI-generated content material for years. Nonetheless, in 2023, it needed to finish a program that tried to determine AI-written textual content as a result of the AI textual content classifier persistently had low accuracy.