AI generated art needs an own file format

Not sure if this is the right section for this, but it's probably the most visited page, so...

Adobe apps have a big impact in the industry and therefore could be seen as the voice of the artist. As you surely noticed, AI-generated art is on the rise. Apps which gives you the ability to generate your own AI pictures are nowadays easy to use and new features/apps pop up every couple month.

However, this lead to huge problems in terms of copyrights and the question of ownership. As these services might be fun to use for a casual consumer, it’s not so fun for real artists - as it shown in some recent cases.

What's the issue?

These AI-generated pictures fetch from sources which are not always free to use. Copyright restricted pictures of artists get used without permission to generate pictures. This lead to sensitive situations where consumers - who don’t mind copyrights - generate such AI-art and sell them for profit without the knowing of artists. OR the work of artists is reproduced / straight copied with consciousness.

How can this be prevented in favor of the artists? / Idea / Thoughts

Because such apps always need some kind of input to generate art (e. g. »Draw a portrait of a cat in the style of Monet«) a conceivable way could be to insert these sources (which the AI-generator used) into the picture-file. This could be a Meta-Description OR an encrypted code inside the file itself, maybe even an own file format for such pictures.

With such mechanism, more transparency for pictures like these could be achieved in the future. Social media platforms could read the encrypted sources and list them automatically in the post, apps like Photoshop could inform casual consumers - who might not know about the copyright issue - that they open a restricted file with multiple owners. Online-Shops who offer print-on-demand could read these sources too and restrict or inform the user about the copyright issue/ownership. Just to name a few examples.

Adobe - with it's weight in the industry and resources in the form of talented devs - could be the one to introduce such file format, make it a standard in the industry and distribute it.

In favor of the artist.

Thoughts?