A few days ago we witnessed the start of events of Google I/O 2023 where it finally became clear to us that the company, like Microsoft and Open AIyou will be betting fully on Artificial Intelligence platforms for your future.
This is how we now have a certainty but concerns and worries continue to increase, with the direction that everything is taking and the order in which we see how this industry is growing where there are many risks of improper use or manipulation of this kind of tools.
More or less at the same time that Google presented these technological projects focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence in China, we witnessed the first historical precedent in which a person was arrested for using these systems to generate an article. deepfake and spread it.
A few weeks ago we saw how many were deceived by a series of images created by Midjourney where it seemed that Pope Francis was dressed in the latest fashion. Above a few days ago the same Boston Dynamics He had to come out and clarify that that viral video on TikTok of his combat robot was a fake digital creation.
There is a real question about how we will be able to tell in the future when something was created by an AI and when what we see is real. Fortunately Alphabet is working on a solution.
Google is working on a tool for its search engine to detect images created by Artificial Intelligence
During the Google I/O 2023 kickoff keynote Google advertisement working on a number of new image search tools that could help users identify fakes generated by some Artificial Intelligence.
Although it is a technology in the making, the idea is that these tools are fully launched in the second quarter of this year 2023 for the search engine among users in the United States in this first stage.
Within everything shown, the new option “About this image” stands out, which will now show us when Google indexed an image for the first time and on which websites it has appeared since then.
This can help you verify the source and authenticity of an image, especially if you upload it to Google’s servers for reverse image search:
In the same way, the company is working on the implementation of a new metadata tag that will indicate from now on if an image has been created by a generative AI tool, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion. Google will integrate this tag into images created with its own AI tools with the intention of making this measure a standard practice across all platforms.
With these changes it will be more feasible to counteract the current penchant for misinformation and deception triggered by this kind of imagery.