The work of Adobe Researchers is behind two of Time magazine’s Best Inventions of the year. The publication honored Content Credentials, a technology that helps battle false information and protect artists’ work by tracking how images are generated and edited, and the Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, which allows users to unlock the information in their PDFs by simply asking their AI Assistant questions.
According to Time, the annual list of 200 groundbreaking innovations is compiled based on each invention’s originality, efficacy, ambition, and impact.
Content Credentials provide content transparency and protects artists’ work
In the age of AI, Adobe is helping to rebuild trust and transparency in digital content. The company leads the Content Authenticity Initiative, a cross-industry community of over 4,000 members including civil society, media, and technology companies, dedicated to promoting mainstream adoption of Content Credentials.
As part of the effort, Adobe Researchers helped create durable Content Credentials, a tool that allows creators to tag images with easy-to-access metadata, including who created the image and how, whether it was created with AI, and how and when it was edited. The team developed digital content fingerprinting technology and invisible watermarking technology, which makes it possible to discover and restore metadata that’s been stripped away. Anyone who wants to understand the original provenance of an image can visit the new Adobe Content Authenticity Inspect website to view or recover lost metadata.
Beyond providing valuable content transparency, giving viewers information about the content’s editing history, Content Credentials also helps creators protect and receive credit for their work. Learn more about the Adobe Research work behind Content Credentials here.
The Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant helps people access the intelligence inside their PDFs
Adobe Researchers tapped the power of large language models (LLMs) to help people do more with the information inside their PDFs. The result is the Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, a tool that lets users have a conversation with a single document or a collection of documents. The Assistant can answer questions, gather information, and generate summaries—all while saving users the countless hours they would otherwise spend foraging for information.
Researchers also built trust into the AI Assistant. In addition to providing answers, the tool shows where the AI Assistant found its information and how it came to its conclusions.
Learn more about how Adobe Researchers helped develop the Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, and where they hope it will go next, here.
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