Google Search offers “About this image” information that checks for AI misusage

Announced at Google’s I/O conference in May, the “About This Image” tool is being rolled out to English-speaking users around the world. The search giant seeks to provide important background information and context about images in Google Search.

“About This Image” does its best to give you an idea of ​​where on the web a given image has appeared in the past and how it has been described (via The edge). The new feature is accessible from the three-dot menu in search results and Google Images. Google already offers an “About This Result” feature to help users verify text sources.

When discussing the origins of an image, you can expect to see its metadata – only when available – as well as vital context about how it was described by news and fact-checking sites. made over time. “About this image” should potentially indicate whether the image you are inspecting was AI-generated or not.

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Currently, Google is still developing a way for users to check any given image on the web, not just those in Google search results. Google’s plans, as explained earlier this year, include an option to make the tool available via right-click or long-press on an image in Chrome or by “swiping up in the Google app when you’re on a page and you come across an image that you want to know more about.” Google says work on its Fact Check Explorer hasn’t stopped. The tool launched in beta this summer allows users to search for image verifications by uploading an image or searching using its URL. Although it’s still in beta, Google is announcing the release of a new API to help fact-checkers and journalists integrate Fact Check Explorer into more workflows.