California's AI Provenance Rules: How to Prove Your Content is (or isn't) Human

Human or Machine? California's new provenance laws will make you prove it. 🤖

The Burden of Proof

In a world flooded with AI content, proving humanity is valuable. AB 3211 creates a framework for digital content provenance, allowing creators to cryptographically sign their work.

For AI Developers

You must label your output. But for human creators, the challenge is proving the absence of AI.

The Role of C2PA

C2PA isn't just for AI labels. It can track the entire edit history of a file, showing that it originated from a camera sensor and was edited by a human in Photoshop.

Conclusion

Provenance is the new copyright. It's how we will distinguish truth from simulation.