C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity)
The open technical standard for embedding cryptographically signed provenance records (manifests) in media files, founded in 2021 by Adobe, Arm, the BBC, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic. Implementable by any organization without a license fee, with a widely used open source reference implementation.
Defined in 4 GAGE programs, which carry 6 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A voluntary international technical coalition, whose members have included Adobe, Microsoft, Intel, and the BBC among others, that publishes an open specification called Content Credentials for embedding cryptographically signed provenance metadata into media files, useful as a global comparator to China's mandatory implicit-labeling regime.
The open technical standard for embedding cryptographically signed provenance records (manifests) in media files, founded in 2021 by Adobe, Arm, the BBC, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic. Implementable by any organization without a license fee, with a widely used open source reference implementation.
A technical standard for cryptographically signed content provenance that records and verifies how a piece of media was created or altered, including AI involvement; part of the trajectory toward automatic, infrastructure-level disclosure.
An industry coalition, formed in 2021 by companies including Adobe, Microsoft, the BBC, Intel, Arm, and Truepic, that developed the Content Credentials technical standard for recording and verifying the origin of digital media.
The technical standard behind content credentials, cryptographically signed metadata that proves an item's origin and an unbroken chain of custody from the point of signing; it does not, by itself, prove the underlying content is true or unaltered before signing.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- How to Brief Colleagues on AI-Assisted Work · AI in the Workplace and Team Leadership, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- Content credentials: provenance for what your AI produces that an outsider can verify · Lineage Under Audit, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- Defending the Article 10 file: the live challenge and the amendments you concede · Adversarial Data Governance, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- Provenance under attack: your content credentials stripped, spoofed, and laundered, and the countermeasures that survive · Adversarial Data Governance, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- A face that never existed, generated while you watch · The Demystification Lab, Senior AI Scam Defense
Terms it appears with
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