Google is updating its documentation to support image AI metadata

Google Search Central has updated its documentation to reflect support for tagging images that have been enhanced or manipulated with AI. Google has also quietly removed the "AI generated" metadata from Beta status, indicating that the "AI Generated" tag is now fully supported in search.

The International Telecommunications Press Council (IPTC) is a standards-setting body that, among other things, creates standards for photo metadata. Photo metadata allows you to tag a photo with information about the photo, such as copyright, licensing, and image descriptions.

The metadata they curate is used by Google Images in contexts outside of Google News. Metadata allows Google Images to display additional information about an image. 🚀

• 📌 Google has quietly adopted metadata standards for images that have been manipulated with AI algorithms commonly used for image manipulation, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).

Google now supports tagging images that have been manipulated in both of these ways with a new digital source metadata property called compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia. 🚀