Building Trust at the Origin
Project Origin aims to create a measure of accountability through provenance: By certifying the source of the content like a watermark, we can safeguard against manipulation.
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In one of its “ALT Stories,” Microsoft introduces “Project Origin,” which seeks to create a “chain of trust” between media content producers and consumers. In a video section of Building Trust at the Origin, Microsoft distinguished engineer Henrique Malvar explains how synthetic media, while useful for education, creative expression and more, is too often used for societal and political manipulation. Project Origin proposes an open standard that creates “accountability through provenance,” through which people can authenticate each media source by noting a trusted watermark.
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