For years, websites included information about what kind of crawlers were not allowed on their site with a robots.txt file. Adobe, which wants to create a similar standard for images, has added a tool to content credentials with an intention to give them a bit more control over what is used to train AI models. Content credentials are information in a media file's metadata used to identify authenticity and ownership. It's a type of implementation of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a standard for content authenticity. Adobe is releasing a new web tool to let creators attach content credentials to all image files, even if they are not created or edited through its own tools. Plus, it's providing a way for creators to signal to AI companies that they shouldn't use that particular image for training models. Adobe's new web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity App, lets users attach their credentials, including name and social media accounts, to a file....
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