Security camera company Ring has launched a new public tool to help people determine if a given video has been edited in some way, including with generative AI technology. And while the tool has some limitations, it\u2019s a step in the right direction that all video platforms should be working on to help us determine what\u2019s real in the AI age.<\/p>\n
Users can visit the Ring Verify landing page<\/a> and upload any Ring video that they\u2019re wondering about. The company describes its system like a \u201csecurity seal on a package.\u201d If even a second has been edited out or it\u2019s been cropped, the \u201cseal breaks,\u201d as it were.<\/p>\n \u201cRing Verify works for all Ring videos, no matter which Ring device recorded them,\u201d the company said in a blog post<\/a> announcing the program. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to set up\u2014it\u2019s automatically included with every video that was downloaded from December 2025 moving forward. Whether you\u2019re receiving footage from a neighbor, reviewing a video for a claim, or checking that a shared video is the real deal, you can now verify it\u2019s authentic Ring footage that hasn\u2019t been tampered with.\u201d<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Ring told Gizmodo that the feature, \u201cwas built using C2PA<\/a> (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) protocol, which aims to prove the content authentically came from a given source (Ring), and does operate using a metadata signature.\u201d That signature only works to tell whether something is definitively authentic, and users can\u2019t necessarily call anything that isn\u2019t verified \u201cfake.\u201d But it\u2019s a helpful way to quickly check if a video shared with you has been tampered with.<\/p>\n As the Verge points out<\/a>, this new tool doesn\u2019t really help with the most common potential use case. If you\u2019re wondering whether that home security camera footage you\u2019re seeing on TikTok or Instagram is real, this isn\u2019t going to tell you that. And that\u2019s a shame. Because security camera footage is some of the most difficult AI-generated footage to parse when it comes to authenticity.<\/p>\n The common fisheye warp of a security camera or the nighttime pixelation that\u2019s expected from home cameras is often used to hide the telltale signs that a given video has been manipulated. But if you upload a video you found on TikTok or Instagram it\u2019s likely to have been edited in some way (either by length or aspect ratio) which will mean the Verify tool will tell you it\u2019s been altered. However, those alterations don\u2019t necessarily mean that it\u2019s AI.<\/p>\n Google has a digital watermark program called SynthID that recently became accessible to all users on Gemini. Uploading an image to Gemini, it will be able to tell you whether the image was created using Google\u2019s AI generator tools. But, again, the capabilities there are limited. Just because it\u2019s missing the invisible watermark doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s \u201creal.\u201d It just means Google didn\u2019t help create it.<\/p>\n These tools are admittedly imperfect, but at least it\u2019s something for the time being. Because AI generated images are getting scary good. And everyone now has to be on their toes. AI fakes aren\u2019t going away anytime soon. 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