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Synthetic Content
Develop a report on authenticating, labeling, or detecting synthetic content (EO Sec. 4.5(a))
On April 29, NIST released a draft publication on reducing risks posed by synthetic content. Comments are due by June 2. More information is available here.
NIST is contributing to a report by the Secretary of Commerce to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs that will identify existing standards, tools, methods, and practices – as well as the potential development of further science-backed standards and techniques – for:
- Authenticating content and tracking its provenance
- Detecting and labeling synthetic content, with techniques such as watermarking
- Preventing generative AI from producing child sexual abuse material or any material containing non-consensual intimate imagery of real individuals
- Testing software used for the above purposes
- Auditing and maintaining synthetic content
The work of NIST's Generative AI Public Working Group’s (GAI PWG) supports this assignment.
NIST will use the work of the GAI PWG and responses to the RFI to develop a draft document that will be available for public comment and will inform a report by the Secretary of Commerce to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.