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TL;DR Google Messages appears to be working on a system to let users check if images in chat are AI creations.
The system appears to distinguish between wholly AI imagery and cases where AI was only used for edits.
None of this is yet functional, but Google’s already making progress.
Every day, we’re presented with an onslaught of images: browser ads, social media, news feeds — they’re everywhere. And increasingly, there’s a good chance that a plurality of those images might involve some kind of AI manipulation, if not full-on generation. While tools to recognize such pictures for what they are exist, oftentimes using them is far too manual of a process. But now it looks like Google could be streamlining how we access these solutions, especially when it comes to images sent through the Messages app.
Systems like SynthID let us scan media for AI content, and last year Google even baked SynthID into Gemini to make it easy to access across your device. Another of these is the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity’s (C2PA) Content Credentials system, and Google Messages appears to be getting ready to analyze imagery for C2PA credentials.
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Today we’re looking at version messages.android_20260611_04_RC00.phone.openbeta_dynamic of Google Messages for Android, but developers have been laying the groundwork here across a few recent releases. While we haven’t yet been able to see this C2PA-aware tool in action, text strings within the app hint at what’s coming:
Code Copy Text <string name="photos_threepio_infopanel_section_organization_text">Info by %s</string> <string name="photos_threepio_infopanel_action_type_ai_title">Edited with AI tools</string>
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