GoKawiilGoogle Messages adds Content Credentials to reveal AI editing history
Google Messages now supports Content Credentials, a feature based on the C2PA standard that shows compatible photos, videos, and audio's origin and editing history, including whether AI tools were used. Users can press and hold supported media, tap Info, then select 'How this was made' to view this data. The feature is currently limited to Android devices.
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As AI-generated and edited images increasingly circulate in everyday chats, tools that surface a file's creation history give users a way to pause before trusting or sharing suspicious content. However, the feature only works when credentials are embedded and present, meaning it can't authenticate content lacking that metadata or definitively label anything as fake.
- Google Messages now shows Content Credentials revealing a media file's editing and AI history.
- The feature relies on the C2PA standard and only works with compatible files that include embedded credentials.
- It cannot confirm whether content is real or fake, and is currently available only on Android.
Google Pixel 9 — Google Messages' new Content Credentials support is Android-only, and Pixel phones get Google's Messages and AI photo features first. The Pixel 9 pairs Google's own camera tools with the Messages app where you can now press and hold media to see how it was made.
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