We skipped our meeting last week.  It sounds like Denny may not be able to attend this week, but I intend to host the meeting.  So here goes….

If you recall, during our weekly group meeting two weeks ago, we discussed alternative methods to combat AI-born deep fakes.  We seemed to agree that we would characterize our workings in terms of “the Three P’s”; Policy, Protection & Provenance.  During the call, Sir Bachenheimer referred me to Eric Scouten (Adobe), as a potential expert on data and data-object provenance.  I agreed to visit with Eric, to discuss whether he should/could/would participate in the Kantara group.   I visited with him and he gave me this link, which he believes summarizes Content Authenticity work, generally.  

According to Eric, content/data-object provenance regards ensuring the validity of such content/object, as well as a verifiable record of any potential edits to that content/object, as well as a verifiable record of how that content/object travels through the digital world. He insisted it really is not about identifying or defending against deep fakes at all.  In fact, conversely, he suggested that Content Authenticity would rely on Digital Identity Credentialing, Verification and Authentication as part of the content authentication process.  So, we agreed that I’d ask the group if we’d like to invite him to present to us, for our general education, but that he would not join or contribute to the group. 

There are some who disagree with him about this, including members of our group.  So, today, during our Meeting, we need to discuss this and, hopefully, we can vote on whether to pursue Content Authentication or not, as a function of our work.  

Jay Meier