Meta Swaps 'Made With AI' Labels With ‘AI Info’ Across All Apps
It was only recently that we saw tech giant Meta roll out a new feature called ‘Made With AI’ to better make users aware and stay informed about the pictures they were seeing.
Now, the company has opted to switch things up by replacing that tag with a new label called ‘AI Info’. But why the sudden change is a question worth pondering over.
Well, it makes sense considering the great amount of backlash that came from photographers who started to generate complaints about how the company was putting labels on content that was actually real and their own creation. This led to a lot of confusion and fury as even the use of basic tools for editing had some assuming that AI was used.
Now, thanks to the great confusion and criticism from users, Meta seems to have created a new tag that would be applicable across all of its apps.
In an earlier report, the company failed to delineate how the ‘Made With AI’ tag didn’t mention specific details about how it could mean that certain AI tools were used during the editing process of the image and therefore would be tagged as made using AI.
Hence, since the indicator was not aligned with what was being said, the company has simply opted to alter the terminology altogether to prevent confusion. This was published in Meta’s blog post.
Meta also reiterated how it was not altering the tech used for AI detection across images. It was still using the same data from its standards that entail specifics about AI tool use.
So in other words, if a photographer ends up using apps like Generative AI fill to get rid of background objects via Adobe, the tag would still imply but the label would now be different. Hence, the goal right now seems to be helping people comprehend better how the picture with such tags isn’t always produced completely using AI technology.
AI Info seems less direct and alarming and therefore can mean a lot of things like modifications or edits using AI instead of completely using AI to generate the picture.
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But the question still remains. Does this new label solve the issue linked to AI-based images going undetected? Not really as it does not inform users how much of a certain AI tool was used for editing.
Therefore, Meta and a host of other apps would need to work side by side to attain guidelines that make users and photographers happy without being unfair to their work. After all, no one wishes to have AI take credit for their personal efforts and hard work.
Experts do feel that it should also be the responsibility of companies like Adobe who need to roll out warnings to photographers about when certain tools are used and how that could lead to the images getting tagged with labels on a host of other services.
Image: Meta Platforms
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