Security News > 2023 > September > IBM, Salesforce and More Pledge to White House List of Eight AI Safety Assurances

Assurances include watermarking, reporting about capabilities and risks, investing in safeguards to prevent bias and more.

Some of the largest generative AI companies operating in the U.S. plan to watermark their content, a fact sheet from the White House revealed on Friday, July 21.

Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI agreed to eight voluntary commitments around the use and oversight of generative AI, including watermarking.

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The watermark commitment involves generative AI companies developing a way to mark text, audio or visual content as machine-generated; it will apply to any publicly available generative AI content created after the watermarking system is locked in.

Since the watermarking system hasn't been created yet, it will be some time before a standard way to tell whether content is AI generated becomes publicly available.

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