Google has added Digital Source Type support to Google Merchant Center, enabling images created by generative AI engines to be flagged as such in Google's products such as Google search, maps, YouTube and Google Shopping. Read more...

On Tuesday 12 November 2023, a group of news, journalism and media organisations released what they call the "Paris Charter on AI and Journalism." Created by 17 organisations brought together by Reporters sans frontières and chaired by journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, the Charter aims to give journalism organisations some guidelines that they can use to navigate the intersection of Artificial Intelligence systems and journalism. Read more...

This weekend at the IBC broadcast industry event in Amsterdam, the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) will launch its news exchange network, ASBU Cloud, with IPTC's NewsML-G2 standard at its core. Read more...

The video recording of IPTC's presentation at the Sports Video Group Content Management Forum has now been released. Read more...

In September 2022, IPTC Managing Director Brendan Quinn was invited to attend a workshop at the Royal Society in London, held in conjunction with the BBC. It was convened to discuss concerns about content provenance, threats to society due to misinformation and disinformation, and the idea of a "public-service internet." Read more...

In partnership with the IPTC, the PLUS Coalition has published for public comment a draft on proposed revisions to the PLUS License Data Format standard. The changes cover a proposed standard for expressing image data mining permissions, constraints and prohibitions. This includes declaring in image files whether an image can be used as part of a training data set used to train a generative AI model. Read more...

CIPA, the Camera and Imaging Products Association based in Japan, has released version 3.0 of the Exif standard for camera data. Read more...

The IPTC is very happy to announce that it has joined the Steering Committee of Project Origin, one of the industry’s key initiatives to fight misinformation online through the use of tamper-evident metadata embedded in media files. Read more...

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