Stop the Slop.

Images.

Provenance standards and artists’ tools against generated-image slop.

4 entries · links checked 26 Aug 2026

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Content Authenticity Initiative

Adobe + 4,000 members (C2PA)

Provenance, not detection: cryptographically sign where an image came from and everything that touched it. The only anti-slop approach that gets stronger as the generators improve, because it never has to guess.

checked 26 Aug 2026
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Detect Fakes

Northwestern Kellogg

A trainer, not a detector: it teaches your eye what to interrogate in a suspect image. One catch: what it teaches ages out fast. Hands got fixed; text got fixed. Treat it as a starting squint, not a durable skill.

checked 26 Aug 2026
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Glaze

University of Chicago

Lets artists perturb their work so scrapers train on poison. Whatever you make of the arms race, this is the artists’ side of it, built by an academic lab that publishes its methods and ships a real tool.

checked 26 Aug 2026
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Have I Been Trained

Spawning

Search the big training sets for your own work and file an opt-out. Opting out after the scraping is consent theater, and everyone involved knows it. It’s also the only lever that exists today, so pull it.

checked 26 Aug 2026