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https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ai-watermarking-could-be-exploited-by-bad-actors-to-spread-misinformation-but-experts-say-the-tech-still-must-be-adopted-quickly-2.jpg?resize=590,337 590w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ai-watermarking-could-be-exploited-by-bad-actors-to-spread-misinformation-but-experts-say-the-tech-still-must-be-adopted-quickly-2.jpg?resize=1181,675 1181w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ai-watermarking-could-be-exploited-by-bad-actors-to-spread-misinformation-but-experts-say-the-tech-still-must-be-adopted-quickly-2.jpg?resize=1475,843 1475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1181px) 100vw, 1181px\"><figcaption> (Getty Images illustration) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"134.11382850242\"><body readability=\"272.56938808635\"><\/p>\n<p>By and large, government and private-sector technologists agree that the use of digital watermarking to verify AI-generated content should be a key component for tackling deepfakes and other forms of malicious misinformation and disinformation. <\/p>\n<p>But there is no clear consensus regarding what a digital watermark is, or what common standards and policies around it should be, leading many AI experts and policymakers to fear that the technology could fall short of its potential and even empower bad actors.<\/p>\n<p>Industry groups and a handful of tech giants \u2014 most notably TikTok and Adobe \u2014 have been singled out by experts as leading the charge on AI watermarking and embracing a transparent approach to the technology. They\u2019ll need all the help they can get during what promises to be an especially chaotic year in digital spaces. <\/p>\n<p>With over 2 billion people expected to vote in elections around the world in 2024, AI creators, scholars and politicians said in interviews with FedScoop that standards on the watermarking of AI-generated content must be tackled in the coming months \u2014 or else the proliferation of sophisticated, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pope-francis-puffer-jacket-fake-photos-deepfake-power-peril-of-ai\/\">viral deepfakes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2019\/01\/business\/pentagons-race-against-deepfakes\/\">fake audio or video of politicians<\/a> will continue unabated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis idea of authenticity, of having authentic trustworthy content, is at the heart of AI watermarking,\u201d said Ramayya Krishnan, dean of Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s information systems and public policy school and a member of President Joe Biden\u2019s National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a technological way of labeling how content was made and having an AI detection tool to go with that would help, and there\u2019s a lot of interest in that, but it\u2019s not a silver bullet,\u201d he added. \u201cThere\u2019s all sorts of enforcement issues.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital watermarking \u201ca triage tool for harm reduction\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are three main types of watermarks created by major tech companies and AI creators to reduce misinformation and build trust with users: visible watermarks added to images, videos or text by companies like Google, OpenAI or Getty to verify the authenticity of content; invisible watermarks that can only be detected through special algorithms or software; and cryptographic metadata, which details when a piece of content was created and how it has been edited or modified before someone consumes it.<\/p>\n<p>Using watermarking to try and reduce AI-generated misinformation and disinformation can be helpful when the average consumer is viewing a piece of content, but it can also backfire. Bad actors can manipulate a watermark and create even more misinformation, AI experts focused on watermarking told FedScoop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\" readability=\"2\">\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p>It\u2019s like Olympic athletes \u2014 now that I know that you\u2019re looking for this drug, I\u2019ll just take another drug.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Senior senate independent staffer on how bad actors can manipulate watermarks<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWatermarking technology has to be taken with a grain of salt because it is not so hard for someone with a knowledge of watermarks and AI to being able to break it and remove the watermark or manufacture one,\u201d said Siwei Lyu, a University at Buffalo computer science professor who studies deepfakes and digital forgeries. <\/p>\n<p>Lyu added that digital watermarking is \u201cnot foolproof\u201d and invisible watermarks are often more effective, though not without their flaws. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think watermarks mostly play on people\u2019s unawareness of their existence. So if they know they can, they will find a way to break it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A senior Senate independent staffer deeply involved in drafting legislation related to AI watermarking said the concern of bad actors using well-intentioned watermarks for manipulative purposes is \u201c1,000% valid. It\u2019s like Olympic athletes \u2014 now that I know that you\u2019re looking for this drug, I\u2019ll just take another drug. It\u2019s like we need to try our best we can to keep pace with the bad actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When it comes to AI watermarking, the Senate is currently in an \u201ceducation and defining the problem\u201d phase, the senior staffer said. Once the main problems with the technology are better defined, the staffer said they\u2019ll begin to explore whether there is a legislative fix or an appropriations fix.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in September that ahead of the 2024 election, tackling issues around AI-generated content that is fake or deceptive and can lead to widespread misinformation and disinformation was an exceedingly <a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/sen-schumers-first-ai-insight-forum-focuses-on-2024-election-federal-regulators\/\">time-sensitive problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the issue of actually having deepfakes, where people really believe \u2026 that a candidate is saying something when they\u2019re totally a creation of AI,\u201d the New York Democrat said after his first <a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/sen-schumer-to-host-musk-zuckerberg-and-other-tech-ceos-for-closed-door-ai-forum\/\">closed-door AI insight forum<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talked about watermarking \u2026 that one has a quicker timetable maybe than some of the others, and it\u2019s very important to do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Another AI expert said that watermarking can be manipulated by bad actors in a small but highly consequential number of scenarios. Sam Gregory, executive director at the nonprofit WITNESS, which helps people use technology to promote human rights, said it\u2019s best to think of AI watermarking as \u201calmost a triage tool for harm reduction.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201dYou\u2019re making available a greater range of signals on where content has come from that works for 95% of people\u2019s communication,\u201d he said. \u201cBut then you\u2019ve got like 5% or 10% of situations where someone doesn\u2019t use the watermark to conceal their identity or strip out information or perhaps they\u2019re a bad actor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a 100% solution,\u201d Gregory added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TikTok, Adobe leading the way on watermarking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among major social media platforms, Chinese-owned TikTok has taken an early lead on watermarking, requiring users to be highly transparent when AI tools and effects are used within their content, three AI scholars told FedScoop. Furthermore, the company has created a culture of encouraging users to be comfortable with sharing the role that AI plays in altering their videos or photos in fun ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTikTok shows you the audio track that was used, it shows you the stitch that was made, it shows you the AI effects used,\u201d Gregory said. And as \u201cthe most commonly used platform by young people,\u201d TikTok makes it \u201ceasy and comfortable to be transparent about how a piece of content was made with presence of AI in the mix.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>TikTok recently announced new labels for disclosing AI-generated content. In a statement, the social media platform said that its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/community-guidelines\/en\/integrity-authenticity\/#3\">policy<\/a> \u201crequires people to label AI-generated content that contains realistic images, audio or video, in order to help viewers contextualize the video and prevent the potential spread of misleading content. Creators can now do this through the new label (or other types of disclosures, like a sticker or caption).\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\" readability=\"2.5\">\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>We realized that we can\u2019t keep getting out in front to determine if something is false, so we decided to flip it and say, \u2018Let\u2019s have everybody expect to say this is true.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><cite>Jeffrey young, adobe senior solutions consultant manager, on the company\u2019s approach content authenticity<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Major AI developers, including Adobe and Microsoft, also support some forms of labeling AI in their products. Both tech giants are members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/c2pa.org\/\">Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)<\/a>, which addresses the prevalence of misinformation online through the development of technical standards for certifying the source and history of online content.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Young, a senior solutions consultant manager at Adobe, said the company has \u201chad a big drive for the content authenticity initiative\u201d due in large part to its awareness that bad actors use Photoshop to manipulate images \u201cfor nefarious reasons.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe realized that we can\u2019t keep getting out in front to determine if something is false, so we decided to flip it and say, \u2018Let\u2019s have everybody expect to say this is true,\u2019\u201d Young said. \u201cSo we\u2019re working with camera manufacturers, working with websites on their end product, that they\u2019re able to rollover that image and say, this was generated by [the Department of Homeland Security], they\u2019ve signed it, and this is confirmed, and it hasn\u2019t been manipulated since this publication.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most major tech companies are in favor of labeling AI content through watermarking and are working to create transparent watermarks, but the tech industry recognizes that it\u2019s a simplistic solution, and other actions must be taken as well to comprehensively reduce AI-generated misinformation online. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Lekas, senior vice president for global public policy & government affairs at the Software & Information Industry Association, said the trade group \u2014 which represents Amazon, Apple and Google, among others \u2014 is \u201cvery supportive\u201d of watermarking labeling and provenance authentication but acknowledges that those measures do \u201cnot solve all the issues that are out there.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeally we\u2019d have a system where everything would be clear and transparent, but we don\u2019t have that yet,\u201d Lekas said. \u201cI think another thing that we are very supportive of is nontechnical, which is literacy \u2014 media literacy, digital literacy for people \u2014 because we can\u2019t just rely on technology alone to solve all of our problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Washington, some momentum on AI watermarking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The White House, certain federal agencies and multiple prominent members of Congress have made watermarking and the reduction of AI-generated misinformation a high priority, pushing through a patchwork of suggested solutions to regulate AI and create policy safeguards around the technology when it comes to deepfakes and other manipulative content.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Through Biden\u2019s October AI executive order, the Commerce Department\u2019s National Institute of Standards and Technology has been charged with creating authentication and watermarking standards for generative AI systems \u2014 following up on <a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/john-thune-ai-bill-generative-ai-self-certification-system\/\">discussions<\/a> in the Senate about <a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/ai-potential-solution-combating-robocalls\/\">similar kinds of verification technologies<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Alondra Nelson, the former White House Office of Science and Technology Policy chief, said in an interview with FedScoop that there is enough familiarity with watermarking that it is no longer \u201ca completely foreign kind of technological intervention or risk mitigation tactic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that we have enough early days experience with watermarking that people have to use,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to use it in different kinds of sectors for different kinds of concerns, like child sexual abuse and these sorts of things.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Congress has also introduced several pieces of legislation related to AI misinformation and watermarking, such as a bill from Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., <a href=\"https:\/\/clarke.house.gov\/clarke-leads-legislation-to-regulate-deepfakes\/\">to regulate deepfakes<\/a> by requiring content creators to digitally watermark certain content and make it a crime to fail to identify malicious deepfakes that are related to criminal conduct, incite violence or interfere with elections.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Chris Coons, D-Del., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, <a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/senators-discuss-new-legislation-focused-on-deceptive-ai-and-elections\/\">proposed new bipartisan legislation<\/a> focused on banning the use of deceptive AI-generated content in elections. In October, Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and John Kennedy, R-La., introduced the bipartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/senate-ai-labeling-act-schatz-kennedy\/\">AI Labeling Act of 2023<\/a>, which would require clear labeling and disclosure on AI-generated content and chatbots so consumers are aware when they\u2019re interacting with any product powered by AI.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Federal Election Commission has been asked to establish a new rule requiring political campaigns and groups to disclose when their ads include AI-generated content.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of any AI legislation within Congress becoming law or garnering significant bipartisan consensus, the White House has pushed to get tech giants to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/eight-more-tech-companies-join-white-house-commitment-to-manage-ai-risks\/\">voluntary commitments governing AI<\/a>, which require steps such as watermarking AI-generated content. Adobe, IBM, Nvidia and others are on board. The private commitments backed by the Biden administration are seen as a stopgap. <\/p>\n<p>From Nelson\u2019s point of view, NIST\u2019s work on the creation of AI watermarking standards will \u201cbe taking it to another level.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne hopes that CIOs and CTOs will take it up,\u201d she said. \u201cThat remains to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"4.8837837837838\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"18\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ai-watermarking-could-be-exploited-by-bad-actors-to-spread-misinformation-but-experts-say-the-tech-still-must-be-adopted-quickly-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Nihal Krishan\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Nihal Krishan<\/h4>\n<p> Nihal Krishan is a technology reporter for FedScoop. He came to the publication from The Washington Examiner where he was a Big Tech Reporter, and previously covered the tech industry at Mother Jones and Global Competition Review. In addition to tech policy, he has also covered national politics with a focus on the economy and campaign finance. His work has been published in the Boston Globe, USA TODAY, HuffPost, and the Arizona Republic, and he has appeared on NPR, SiriusXM, and PBS Arizona. Krishan is a graduate of Arizona State University\u2019s Walter Cronkite School for Journalism. 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