Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) arm recently released Video Seal, a new open-source model designed to watermark AI-generated videos and distinguish their origin.
“While AI tools can help bring the world closer together, it’s important that we implement safeguards to mitigate the risks of imitation, manipulation, and other forms of misuse that can undermine their benefits,” said Meta.
According to the company, post-hoc watermarking can serve to greatly improve traceability for content and AI models. Meta Video Seal, which the tech giant described as “a state-of-the art comprehensive framework for neural video watermarking,” fulfills exactly this purpose.
“Video Seal adds a watermark (with an optional hidden message) into videos that is imperceptible to the naked eye and can later be uncovered to determine a video’s origin,” explained Meta. The tool is meant to be embedded into AI video generators. Meta unveiled its own text-to-video AI model, called Movie Gen, earlier this year.
Per the company, the watermark added by Video Seal can withstand common video editing techniques like blurring or cropping. In addition, it can also survive the compression algorithms videos are subjected to when shared online.
Meta Video Seal is now available to download under a permissive license. The company has also released an interactive demo for Video Seal, along with a research paper, training code, and inference code for the model.
Meta is quickly enhancing its AI capabilities, with the company’s AI assistant recently crossing 600 million active users. In addition to Video Seal, Meta FAIR also unveiled Meta Motivo, a foundation model for controlling the behaviour of virtual agents, and several new research artifacts that the company has been working on.
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