Content authenticity
Metadata and verification mechanisms to assess content genuineness.
Definition
Metadata, provenance information, and verification mechanisms that enable users or systems to determine whether digital content is genuine, has been modified, or was synthetically generated. Under AB 2885, the Government Operations Agency is tasked with developing standards for content authenticity to help detect and disclose synthetic media.
Related Terms
Digital content provenance
Factual information detailing a digital resource's creator, origin, context, history, and editing, conforming to an open industry technical standard....
Provenance data
Data used to trace and verify content origin....
Content Provenance
Traceability of content origin and processing history....
Provenance / Watermarking
Mechanisms (metadata or marks) to assert content authenticity and origin....
content provenance information
Machine-readable data documenting a content item's origin and history....