P: (Early Access) Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for (CR & LrClassic)

If I uncheck add watermark and change the resize to 35%, it says "Couldn't apply Content Credentials.". But if I leave it at 50% resize with watermark added, it exports the image fine.

Unabke to export photos from Camera Raw with content credentials... Consequently cannot export with Copyright

I am unable to share too many details for business infosec reasons. I'm currently using Adobe Bridge 14.1.3 on Mac OS, and I'm using this version specifically in order to avoid the forced use of "CAI." I work in image production in the entertainment industry, and there is great and growing concern that this unwanted Adobe-proprietary format is being forced on us - and that is indicated by the Creative Cloud descriptions and various submenus of the newest versions of Adobe Bridge, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Camera RAW.

This "Content Credential" product is NOT a well-accepted nor industry-adopted standard or system for data management, nor is its use recognized as a best practice by any major corporate businesses in the photography industry, especially not in the realm of entertainment photography where I've worked for 20 years.

Disallowing the ability to erase faulty, mis-entered, or even personally-identifying editing and file metadata, even when it is "junk data" or traces left by users/vendors who aren't image owners, is a complete failure point conceptually for infosec as well as for the whole idea of using Adobe's "Content Credentials" for data management. The uploading of privately-owned and proprietary images to Adobe's "Cloud" service alongside these "Content Credentials" is another separate and unique security violation. These are just a couple of many systemic failure points of this format that make it especially unsuitable for the professional image production environment. Businesses that work in imagery have a direct, easily understood business need to erase and/or change metadata. That's been true of every single photo business and photographer I've worked for and worked with.

If Adobe takes further steps to force the adoption of this protocol that breaks actual established industry best practices for data management (the ability to erase personal private identifying information, and the ability to erase and wipe old/incorrect metadata) it will drive Adobe business customers to seek other options, and to forego further Adobe upgrades and product purchases. Simply put, these Adobe "credentials" must be kept entirely optional and they must remain dormant unless affirmatively requested. And Adobe needs to be much, much clearer that that is going to remain the case.

What's the difference between this and simply adding metadata to my exports? 

There seems to be some sort of glitch where the content credentials are not always able to be added. It will work sometimes and then others it will say content credentials failed and then it wont save the file at all until I click the credentials tab off.

In the dialog description it says "seperate". "separate" would be more accurate.

I would like to see an option during export that only states whether AI has been used or not, instead of showing "edits" along that info. If building trust around AI usage is the goal, then I believe showing "edits" other than AI usage is not necessary, unless I would choose so.

This "Content Credentials" was a waste of development time & skill.... It would have been a better use of developpers time to team up & improve functionality of other "upgrades".

I'm just looking into this and I have questions:

1) If I attach to cloud and then post my jpg to a social media site, how does an individual looking at that check the image to see if it is really mine or what edits I made. I have had people challenge me that my image was AI and I can't see any simple way to verify that to them. Seems this would help if the user could check/verify.

2) If I decide I don't want to use this feature any longer, is there a way I can remove the information that I have already allowed up to the cloud?

3) Is there any sort of "certificate" that I can generate from this to give to individuals who purchase a print from me? I like to leave them with something that they can use to verify that it is indeed my image, or at least I registered it somewhere and didn't just steal it and resell it.

4)  I would like to be able to attach more than just X, Instagram, LinkedIn to photos.

5) I don't see any option in LrC to prevent AI scraping or the "I own this . . . " checkbox.

6) Will this evolve into a subscription or pay app? Meaning will it be free forever to upload as many content credetials as I want?

7) A possible problem in the chain of editing is that I often use 3rd party apps to Denoise. These generate a tiff image that when exported with credentials doesn't really tell anybody very much except my person contact information and linked media sites. Not sure much can be done about that, but it also means that almost any AI image can be exported as a tiff and then have credentials uploaded and there does not seem to be any way that can be detected or tracked.

😎 If I change location/address/email/phone, is there any way to update that on previous image data uploaded.

9) Is there a way to log into my account and see what I have there and modify/edit it?

Hope thats not too much to ask at once, but thats my immediate feedback.

Thanks,

~ tommy

Hello,
It's a great idea. But it is so long to export files.
Usually when I export 100photos 4K to jpg fullHD it just takes only a few seconds.
Now with content credential and only productor and account (not modifications) it takes maybe 10min. Crazy too long.
And it crashes usually on some files. I think it's because of undersized servers. Maybe.
So sadly I stopped using this option.

Lrc 14.0.1

Windows11pro, I7 14700k, 64goddr5, rtx4070tisuper