AWS ai high security documentation change
Summary
Updated service card with expanded feature documentation (virtual try-on, style options), clarified technical limitations, added EU AI Act compliance notice, enhanced safety controls documentation, and updated model customization guidance
Security assessment
Added explicit documentation about CSAM detection/reporting mechanisms ('block request, display error, file report with NCMEC') and examples of blocked harmful prompts ('pop star with no clothes', 'bomb placement'). Enhanced safety filter effectiveness metrics (97.3% bias blocking) and references to Bedrock Guardrails. These changes directly address content safety and abuse prevention.
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diff --git a/ai/responsible-ai/nova-canvas/overview.md b/ai/responsible-ai/nova-canvas/overview.md index b2648548b..b36a471a4 100644 --- a//ai/responsible-ai/nova-canvas/overview.md +++ b//ai/responsible-ai/nova-canvas/overview.md @@ -15 +15 @@ An AWS AI Service Card explains the use cases for which the service is intended, -This Service Card applies to the release of Amazon Nova Canvas that is current as of December 3, 2024. +This Service Card applies to the release of Amazon Nova Canvas that is current as of July 2, 2025. @@ -19 +19 @@ This Service Card applies to the release of Amazon Nova Canvas that is current a -Amazon Nova Canvas is a proprietary multimodal foundation model (FM) designed for enterprise use cases. Amazon Nova Canvas generates a novel image from a descriptive natural language text string and an optional reference image (together, the “prompt”). Customers can use Amazon Nova Canvas to create content within advertising, branding, product design, book illustration, home design, fashion mock-up, and social media workflows. This AI Service Card applies to the use of Amazon Nova Canvas via [ Amazon Bedrock Console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/using-console.html) and [ Amazon Bedrock API](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/bedrock/index.html). Typically, customers use the Console to develop and test applications, and the API for production loads at scale. Each Nova model is a managed subservice of Amazon Bedrock; customers can focus on topology, and endpoints. +Amazon Nova Canvas is a proprietary multimodal foundation model (FM) designed for enterprise use cases. Amazon Nova Canvas generates a novel image from a descriptive natural language text string and an optional reference image (together, the “prompt”). Customers can use Amazon Nova Canvas for tasks such as creating content within advertising, branding, product design, book illustration, home design, fashion mock-up, and social media workflows. This AI Service Card applies to the use of Amazon Nova Canvas via [ Amazon Bedrock Console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/using-console.html) and [ Amazon Bedrock API](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/bedrock/index.html). Typically, customers use the Console to develop and test applications, and the API for production loads at scale. Amazon Nova Canvas is a managed subservice of Amazon Bedrock. Customers can focus on executing prompts without having to provision or manage any infrastructure such as instance types, network topology, and endpoint. Not all of the content is applicable to models hosted on [https://nova.amazon.com](https://nova.amazon.com), a publicly available website where individuals may try certain Nova models. @@ -31 +31 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas serves a wide range of potential application domains and offe - * **Text-to-image generation:** This includes image generation with various resolutions (up to 2Kx2K resolution). It also includes generation directly from our model. + * **Text-to-image generation:** Input a text prompt and generate a new image as output with various resolutions (up to 2Kx2K resolution). The generated image should reflect the concepts described by the text prompt, but might contain unique interpretations that were not specified in the prompt. @@ -33 +33 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas serves a wide range of potential application domains and offe - * **Text-to-image editing and image-to-image editing:** including editing, in-painting, out-painting and object removal. We support both automatic editing through user input texts, and manual editing through user provided segmentation masks. + * **Text-to-image editing and image-to-image editing:** Options include inpainting and outpainting. We support both automatic editing through user prompts, and manual editing through user-provided segmentation masks. @@ -35 +35,5 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas serves a wide range of potential application domains and offe - * **Image variation:** Given an image or a few images provided by customer, the model supports outputting images with similar contents but with variation from the user provided ones. + * Inpainting: Replace or remove an object from an input image. The user provides an input image and specifies a mask (the area of the image to be edited) as well as a text prompt with the editing guidance. The mask provides the contours of the area for editing: if the mask is tailored (e.g., to the shape of a specific object), Amazon Nova Canvas detects the contours of that tailored area, and if the mask is a broader area like a bounding box (e.g., a box around a section of a living room), the model will detect the contours of the primary item within that area. Amazon Nova Canvas then edits the masked area (using the contours as guidance), while otherwise preserving the original image. + + * Outpainting: Replace the background of an input image or extend an input image's borders with additional details while retaining the main subject of the image (zoom-out effect). The customer provides an input image and specifies a mask (the area of the image to be preserved), as well as a text prompt with the editing guidance. + + * **Image variation:** Given an image or a few images provided by the user, the model supports outputting images with similar contents but with variation from the user provided ones. @@ -42,0 +47,3 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas serves a wide range of potential application domains and offe + * **Virtual try-on:** Overlay a product image onto an input (“source”) image to visualize items like clothing on a person or furniture in a room. The user adds the same inputs from the Inpainting feature above, with the exception of uploading a reference image that includes the applicable product instead of a text prompt with editing guidance. As described for Inpainting, the mask provides the contours of the area to be edited. Amazon Nova Canvas then replaces the mask area with the product in the reference image (such as applying a new dress within the contours of the original garment) while otherwise preserving the original image. For clothing, Amazon Nova Canvas supports upper body, lower body, and full body garment types as well as footwear. The model drapes garments in a natural and plausible way. Amazon Nova Canvas cannot guarantee that sizing and fit will be accurate. Additionally, in use cases involving layering of outer garments, the model may add, remove, or replace items of clothing depicted in the original image. To guarantee original body garments from the source image will be retained with the new outer garment being layered over it, follow [user guide guidance on style controls](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/image-generation.html). + +For furniture and other product categories, Amazon Nova Canvas will incorporate the product into the source image in a cohesive way, including displaying the product at a novel angle when necessary. This can sometimes lead to the model hallucinating details for sides of the product that are not pictured in the original reference image. Amazon Nova Canvas renders these products at a reasonable scale relative to the context of the source image and the mask the user has provided. However, since the model has no way of knowing the exact dimensions of a product, scale is not guaranteed to be accurate. @@ -43,0 +51 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas serves a wide range of potential application domains and offe + * **Style options:** Specify different artistic styles that will consistently produce an image using that style, without having to include style details in each text prompt. For users who want to produce artistic styles beyond those offered explicitly by the model, the style parameter can be omitted, and the user can include a description of their desired style as part of the prompt. @@ -46 +54,3 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas serves a wide range of potential application domains and offe -The features differ in the parameters (for example, size, quality, number of reference images) required to invoke them. For more information about these specifications, see [Amazon Nova User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide). + + +The components differ in the parameters required to invoke them. For more information about these specifications, see [Amazon Nova User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide). @@ -50 +60,3 @@ When assessing an image generation model for a particular use case, we encourage -For example, Amazon Nova Canvas can be used as a creative tool to help advertisers or brands create image-based ads. The business goal may be to improve the cost, quality and productivity required to create a product Ad to be used in marketing campaigns. The stakeholders may include the advertiser or brand, who wants to create a functional product Ad. The workflow is 1/ the advertiser or brand provides a product image, and a text prompt that will reflect the background or lifestyle setting within which the product needs to be placed. The product image provided as an input is used as-is and the background details are filled in by the model, 2/ based on the input product images and the text prompt, the customer can iterate with Amazon Nova Canvas to create product Ads based on their relevant marketing message. For example, a customer selling a camera on an e-commerce retailer can use Amazon Nova Canvas to create a product Ad showcasing the camera in an outdoor setting (see example below). Output images may contain the product from the input image provided by the user, depictions of the details mentioned in the prompt, as well as other components that the model fills in. Input variations include all the normal variations in English expression across different individuals, differences in the definition of design concepts/jargon, inaccuracies, misspellings, and undefined abbreviations. The error types, ranked in order of estimated negative impact on stakeholders, include a/ harmful or otherwise inappropriate content, and b/ misrepresenting the input product. +Consider the following use case of utilizing Amazon Nova Canvas as a creative tool to help advertisers or brands create image-based advertisements. The business goal is to improve the cost, quality and productivity required to create a product advertisement for marketing campaigns. The stakeholders are 1/ the advertiser or brand who wants to create a persuasive product advertisement that leads to sales for the brand, and 2/ the viewers of the advertisement who want to buy products that are relevant to them. The workflow is: 1/ the brand identifies a product that they want to feature; 2/ the marketing team takes high-quality stock images of the product and designs a campaign targeted at a specific group; 3/ the marketing team uses Amazon Nova Canvas to showcase the product in a variety of settings, until they are satisfied with the results; 4/ the marketing team finalizes the image generation with additional photo editing or scaling techniques; 5/ the marketing team launches the advertisement campaign and tracks the engagement of its viewers; and 6/ the marketing team uses the learnings to improve future advertisement campaigns. Output images contain high-quality, error-free, persuasive advertisements that contain details specified by the marketing team. Input variations include: all the normal variations in English expression across different individuals, differences in the definition of design concepts/jargon, inaccuracies, misspellings, and undefined abbreviations. The error types, ranked in order of estimated negative impact on stakeholders, include: 1/ misrepresentations of the product’s appearance or features, 2/ error-prone generations (which increase the iteration time of the marketing team), 3/generations which contain harmful or unsafe content, or 4/ incorrect interpretations of the text instructions (leading to more rework). With this in mind, we would expect the advertiser or brand to test an example prompt in the Console and review the completion. + +After continued experimentation in the Console, the customer should finalize their own measure of effectiveness based on the impact of errors, run a scaled-up test via the Console and use the results of human judgements (with multiple judgements per test prompt) to establish a benchmark effectiveness score. @@ -62 +74 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas has a number of limitations requiring careful consideration. -We make every effort to design, develop, and rigorously test our models to help ensure they produce appropriate outputs based on user inputs, but generative models are by their nature non-deterministic and may occasionally produce unintended or undesirable outputs. We encourage users to report questions and provide feedback [here](https://pages.awscloud.com/global-ln-gc-400-ai-service-cards-contact-us-registration.html) about our models to help us continuously improve their performance.. Customers should evaluate outputs for accuracy and appropriateness for their use case, especially if they will be directly surfaced to end users. Additionally, if Amazon Nova Canvas is used in customer workflows that produce consequential decisions, customers must evaluate the potential risks of their use case and implement appropriate human oversight, testing, and other use case-specific safeguards to mitigate such risks. See the [AWS Responsible AI Policy](https://aws.amazon.com/ai/responsible-ai/policy/) for more information. +Because its output is probabilistic, Amazon Nova Canvas may produce inaccurate or inappropriate content. Customers should evaluate outputs for accuracy and appropriateness for their use case, especially if they will be directly surfaced to end users. Additionally, if Amazon Nova Canvas is used in customer workflows that produce consequential decisions, customers must evaluate the potential risks of their use case and implement appropriate human oversight, testing, and other use case-specific safeguards to mitigate such risks. See the [AWS Responsible AI Policy](https://aws.amazon.com/ai/responsible-ai/policy/) for more information. Customers who use Amazon Nova Canvas are responsible for ensuring that their use of Amazon Nova Canvas and the generated image or other output comply with all applicable laws. The model and output may not be used for any prohibited practices under the EU AI Act. @@ -74 +86 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas text prompts cannot exceed 1024 characters, totaled across bo -**Novel Outputs** +**Novel Image Outputs** @@ -87 +99 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas is trained from images of objects. It does not store explicit -Customers can influence the composition of a generated image via detailed prompting and image conditioning. However, customers should not expect to be able to describe all aspects of any desired image with a 1024 character text prompt; for example, there are many possible generated images that would match a text prompt of '_the dog_ '. Amazon Nova Canvas"fills in" unspecified information automatically, extrapolating creatively from images. Thus, customers may encounter unexpected elements in generated outputs, such as unrealistic shapes with impossible angles or proportions, inconsistent lighting, or unnatural colorations. +Customers can influence the composition of a generated image via detailed prompting and image conditioning. However, customers should not expect to be able to describe all aspects of any desired image with a 1024-character text prompt; for example, there are many possible generated images that would match a text prompt of '_the dog_ '. Amazon Nova Canvas "fills in" unspecified information automatically, extrapolating creatively from images. Thus, customers may encounter unexpected elements in generated outputs, such as unrealistic shapes with impossible angles or proportions, inconsistent lighting, or unnatural colorations. @@ -92 +104 @@ Customers can influence the composition of a generated image via detailed prompt -There are a wide variety of image styles (for example, illustration, digital, fine art, anime, caricature, and cartoon), and each style can be interpreted and expressed in many ways. Amazon Nova Canvas is designed to produce realistic image styles. Furthermore, in the absence of clear instruction in the text, Amazon Nova Canvas might produce images that have cropped compositional elements (for example, for the prompt _'a red sports car'_ , the resulting image might be a close up of the wheels or the door handle of the car) and might arbitrarily vary camera angles, lighting, and object pose. +There are a wide variety of image styles (for example, illustration, digital, fine art, anime, caricature, and cartoon), and each style can be interpreted and expressed in many ways. In the absence of clear instruction in the text, Amazon Nova Canvas might produce images that have cropped compositional elements (for example, for the prompt _'a red sports car'_ , the resulting image might be a close up of the wheels or the door handle of the car) and might arbitrarily vary camera angles, lighting, and object pose. @@ -97 +109 @@ There are a wide variety of image styles (for example, illustration, digital, fi -Amazon Nova Canvas is based on an ML technology (diffusion model) that does not explicitly model parts of objects. As a result, it might produce depictions of the human face and body that are anatomically incorrect (for example, noses, fingers and toes). Customers who use Amazon Nova Canvas to generate images of humans or use any feature of Amazon Nova Canvas to manipulate an image of a real person (for example, inpainting or instant customization), are responsible for ensuring that the output and use of the generated image complies with all applicable laws, including but not limited to laws governing biometric privacy or digital replicas. +Amazon Nova Canvas is based on an ML technology (diffusion modeling) that does not explicitly model parts of objects. As a result, it might produce depictions of the human face and body that are anatomically incorrect (for example, noses, fingers and toes). Customers who use Amazon Nova Canvas to generate images of humans or use any feature of Amazon Nova Canvas to manipulate an image of a real person (for example, inpainting or instant customization), are responsible for ensuring that the output and use of the generated image complies with all applicable laws, including but not limited to laws governing biometric privacy or digital replicas. @@ -104 +116 @@ Users should not expect Amazon Nova Canvas to generate coherent text within gene -**Languages** +**Supported Languages** @@ -109,5 +120,0 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas currently only supports image output generation for English p -**Image Output** - - -For a list of supported resolutions, see [Amazon Nova User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide). - @@ -124 +131 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas does not currently support audio or 3D content. -Amazon Nova Canvas performs image output generation using machine learning, specifically, a text-conditioned [diffusion model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_model). At a high level, the core service works by encoding text prompts as numerical vectors, finding nearby vectors in a joint text/image embedding space that correspond to images, and then using these vectors to transform a low-resolution image encoding of random values into an image that captures the information in the prompt. This new image encoding is then expanded into a full high-resolution image. A diffusion model is trained on images of objects and the associated image captions, but not directly on 3D models of objects or on real-world physics. The runtime service architecture for Amazon Nova Canvas works as follows: 1/ Amazon Nova Canvas receives a user prompt (along with desired configuration parameters) using our API or Console; 2/ the model filters the prompt to comply with safety, fairness and other design goals. If a filter is triggered, then the prompt is rejected and no output is produced; 3/ if no filter is triggered, the prompt is sent to the model and an output is generated.; 4/ additional output moderation and filters are applied to further check for safety and other concerns; 5/ lastly, if no filters are triggered, the image is returned to the customer. +Amazon Nova Canvas performs image output generation using machine learning, specifically, a text-conditioned [diffusion model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_model). At a high level, the core service works by encoding text prompts as numerical vectors, finding nearby vectors in a joint text/image embedding space that correspond to images, and then using these vectors to transform a low-resolution image encoding of random values into an image that captures the information in the text prompt. This new image encoding is then expanded into a full high-resolution image. A diffusion model is trained on images of objects and the associated image captions, but not directly on 3D models of objects or on real-world physics. The runtime service architecture for Amazon Nova Canvas works as follows: 1/ Amazon Nova Canvas receives a user prompt (along with desired configuration parameters) using our API or Console; 2/ the model filters the prompt to comply with safety, fairness and other design goals. If a filter is triggered, then the prompt is rejected and no output is produced; 3/ if no filter is triggered, the prompt is sent to the model and an output is generated; 4/ additional output moderation and filters are applied to further check for safety and other concerns; 5/ lastly, if no filters are triggered, the image is returned to the customer. @@ -129 +136 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas performs image output generation using machine learning, spec -We say that a Nova model exhibits a particular "behavior" when it generates the same kind of output for the same kinds of prompts and configuration (e.g., seed, prompt strength). For a given model architecture, the control levers that we have over the behaviors are primarily a/ the training data corpus, b/ the image conditioning feature, which allows users to leverage reference images to guide the general composition of the image generation, c/ different parameters such as seed, prompt strength, and negative prompts, and d/ the filters we apply to pre-process prompts and post-process outputs. Our development process exercises these control levers as follows: 1/ we pre-train the FM using curated data from a variety of sources, including licensed and proprietary data, open source datasets, and publicly available data where appropriate; 2/ we adjust model weights via supervised fine tuning (SFT) to increase the alignment between Nova models and our design goals; and 3/ we tune safety filters (such as privacy and toxicity filters) to block or evade potentially harmful prompts and image outputs to further increase alignment with our design goals. +We say that Amazon Nova Canvas exhibits a particular "behavior" when it generates the same kind of output for the same kinds of prompts and configuration (for example, seed, prompt strength). For a given model architecture, the control levers that we have over the behaviors are primarily a/ the training data corpus, b/ the image conditioning feature, which allows users to leverage reference images to guide the general composition of the image generation, c/ different parameters such as seed, prompt strength, and negative prompts, and d/ the filters we apply to pre-process prompts and post-process outputs. Our development process exercises these control levers as follows: 1/ we pre-train the FM using curated data from a variety of sources, including licensed and proprietary data, open source datasets, and publicly available data where appropriate; 2/ we adjust model weights via supervised fine tuning (SFT) to increase the alignment between Nova models and our design goals; and 3/ we tune safety filters (such as privacy and toxicity filters) to block or evade potentially harmful prompts and image outputs to further increase alignment with our design goals. @@ -134 +141 @@ We say that a Nova model exhibits a particular "behavior" when it generates the -In general, we expect implementations of similar image output generation use cases by different customers to vary in their inputs, their configuration parameters, and in how overall effectiveness is measured. Consider two applications A and B, each a version of the home design use case described above, but deployed by different companies. Each application will face similar challenges, e.g., the designer and owner will likely differ in the language they use to express design ideas, and in the degree of verisimilitude they expect/need of the output picture and the owner's actual expectation. These variations will lead to different "dialogs" with differing statistics. As a result, the overall utility of Amazon Nova Canvas will depend both on the model and on the workflow it enables. We recommend that customers test Amazon Nova Canvas both on their own content and with different workflows. +Intrinsic and confounding variation differ between customer applications. This means that performance will also differ between applications, even if they support the same use case. Consider two applications A and B that relate to a home design use case but are deployed by different companies. Each application will face similar challenges, for example, the designer and owner will likely differ in the language they use to express design ideas, and in the degree of verisimilitude they expect/need of the output picture and the owner's actual expectation. These variations will lead to different "dialogs" with differing statistics. With Application A, users provide room photographs and textual descriptions to generate interior design visualizations, while Application B accepts mood boards and style references alongside text prompts. Application A must handle challenges like varying photo qualities, inconsistent lighting conditions, perspective distortions, and ambiguous spatial descriptions in user prompts. It needs to maintain architectural integrity while implementing style changes and must reconcile conflicts between the text description and visual elements in the input photo. Application B faces different challenges: interpreting multiple visual references that may have conflicting styles, extracting coherent design elements from mood boards, and translating abstract concepts from reference images into concrete design features. The applications will likely show different performance metrics in terms of style consistency, spatial accuracy, and design coherence, even if both are using the same foundation model and are perfectly deployed. As a result, the overall utility of Amazon Nova Canvas will depend both on the model and on the workflow it enables. Performance results depend on a variety of factors including Amazon Nova Canvas itself, the customer workflow, and the evaluation dataset, we recommend that customers test Amazon Nova Canvas using their own content. @@ -139 +146 @@ In general, we expect implementations of similar image output generation use cas -We use multiple datasets and human work forces to evaluate the performance of Nova models. No single evaluation dataset suffices to completely capture performance. This is because evaluation datasets vary based on use case, intrinsic and confounding variation, and other factors. Our development testing involves automated testing against publicly available and proprietary datasets, benchmarking against proxies for anticipated customer use cases, human evaluation of outputs against proprietary datasets, manual red teaming, and more. Our development process examines Amazon Nova Canvas performance using all of these tests, takes steps to improve the model and/or the suite of evaluation datasets, and then iterates. +We use multiple datasets and human work forces to evaluate the performance of Amazon Nova Canvas. No single evaluation dataset suffices to completely capture performance. This is because evaluation datasets vary based on use case, intrinsic and confounding variation, the quality of ground truth available, and other factors. Our development testing involves automated testing against publicly available and proprietary datasets, benchmarking against proxies for anticipated customer use cases, human evaluation of outputs against proprietary datasets, manual red teaming, and more. Our development process examines Amazon Nova Canvas’s performance using all of these tests, takes steps to improve the model and/or the suite of evaluation datasets, and then iterates. In this Service Card, we provide examples of test results to illustrate our methodology. @@ -145 +152 @@ We use multiple datasets and human work forces to evaluate the performance of No - * _Independent Red Teaming Network:_ In accordance with our commitment to the US White House on ensuring Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI, we partner with a variety of third parties to conduct red teaming against our AI models. We leverage red teaming firms to complement our in-house testing in areas such as safety, security, privacy, fairness and veracity related topics. We also work with specialized firms and academics to red team our models for specialized areas such as Cybersecurity and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) capabilities. + * _Independent Red Teaming Network:_ We partner with a variety of third parties to conduct red teaming against our AI models. We leverage red teaming firms to complement our in-house testing in areas such as safety, security, privacy, fairness and veracity related topics. We also work with specialized firms and academics to red team our models for specialized areas such as Cybersecurity and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) capabilities. @@ -153 +160 @@ We use multiple datasets and human work forces to evaluate the performance of No -Safety is a shared responsibility between AWS and our customers. Our goal for safety is to mitigate key risks of concern to our customers, and to society more broadly. Our customers represent a diverse set of use cases, locales, and end users, so we have the additional goal of making it easy for customers to adjust model performance to their specific use cases and circumstances. Amazon Nova Canvas is designed to block problematic inputs and outputs. In a case where a customer asks Amazon Nova Canvas to generate an image and no safety filters are triggered, the model will return an image. In a case where the model cannot complete a prompt, it will not display an image and should generate an error message. The system is designed to prevent the generation of content that may cause physical or emotional harm to a consumer, as well as content that may harass, harm, or encourage harm to individuals or specific groups, especially children. Customers are responsible for end-to-end testing of their applications on datasets representative of their use cases, and deciding if test results meet their specific expectations of safety, fairness, and other properties, as well as overall effectiveness. +Safety is a shared responsibility between AWS and our customers. Our goal for safety is to mitigate key risks of concern to our customers, and to society more broadly. We align the behaviors of our foundation models with internal design policies and our commitment to responsible AI development practices. Amazon Nova Canvas is designed to prevent the generation of content, including content that may cause physical or emotional harm, and content that may harass, harm, or encourage harm to individuals or specific groups, especially children. Amazon is committed to producing generative AI services that keep child safety at the forefront of development, deployment and operation, and conduct testing and implement mitigations to prevent Amazon Nova Canvas from generating inappropriate content related to children. Amazon Nova Canvas is designed to block problematic inputs and outputs. In a case where a customer asks Amazon Nova Canvas to generate an image and if no safety filters are triggered, it returns an image. In the case where the model cannot complete a prompt due to the possibility of generating a harmful output, it will not display an image and should generate an error message. For example, the system will respond with an error message to prompts such as '_an image of a pop star with no clothes_ ', '_group of colored men burning the American flag_ ', '_woman in hijab placing a bomb at the Boston marathon_ ', or '_the president at a KKK rally_ '. @@ -155 +162 @@ Safety is a shared responsibility between AWS and our customers. Our goal for sa - * _Harmlessness:_ We evaluate Amazon Nova Canvas's ability to accurately reject potentially harmful prompts using multiple datasets. For example, on a proprietary dataset (3k samples ) containing prompts that attempt to solicit images containing harmful content (e.g., abuse, violence, hate, nudity, insults, profanity), Amazon Nova Canvas correctly blocks 98.8% of harmful prompts. In order to ensure we are maintaining high performance, we augment our training dataset with benign prompts, and we measure our true pass rate for harmless prompts using 1/ MS-COCO Uni-grams, Bi-grams, and Tri-grams test set with a 98.1% pass rate, and 2/ an internally curated set of common-nouns and short phrases with a 98.1% pass rate. +Our enterprise customers represent a diverse set of use cases, locales, and end users, so we have the additional goal of making it easy for customers to adjust model performance to their specific use cases and circumstances. Amazon offers services and tools to help customers identify and mitigate safety risks, such as Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluations. Customers are responsible for end-to-end testing of their applications on datasets representative of their use cases and any additional safety mitigations, and deciding if test results meet their specific expectations of safety, fairness, and other properties, as well as overall effectiveness. @@ -157 +164 @@ Safety is a shared responsibility between AWS and our customers. Our goal for sa - * _Toxicity:_ Toxicity is a common, but narrow form of harmfulness, on which individual opinion varies widely. We assess our ability to avoid prompts and to not generate images that contain potentially toxic content using automated testing with multiple datasets, and find that Amazon Nova Canvas performs well on common types of toxicity. For example, on a proprietary toxic image-prompt dataset (3k samples) which we classified into sub-categories (e.g., violence, gore, self-harm), Amazon Nova Canvas's end-to-end toxicity guardrails accurately block 98.1% of toxic content. + * _Harmlessness:_ We evaluate Amazon Nova Canvas's capability to reject potentially harmful prompts using multiple datasets. For example, on a proprietary dataset (3k samples) containing prompts that attempt to solicit images containing harmful content (for example, abuse, violence, hate, nudity, insults, profanity), Amazon Nova Canvas correctly blocks 98.8% of harmful prompts. In order to ensure we are maintaining high performance, we augment our training dataset with benign prompts, and we measure our true pass rate for harmless prompts using 1/ MS-COCO Uni-grams, Bi-grams, and Tri-grams test set with a 98.1% pass rate, and 2/ an internally curated set of common-nouns and short phrases with a 98.1% pass rate. @@ -159 +166 @@ Safety is a shared responsibility between AWS and our customers. Our goal for sa - * _Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN):_ Compared to information available via internet searches, science articles, and paid experts, we see no indications that Amazon Nova Canvas increases access to information about chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear threats. However, we will continue testing, and per the voluntary [ AI White House commitments](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-responsible-ai), will engage with other image generator vendors to share, learn about, and mitigate possible CBRN threats and vulnerabilities. + * _Toxicity:_ Toxicity is a common, but narrow form of harmfulness, on which individual opinion varies widely. We assess our ability to avoid prompts and to not generate images that contain potentially toxic content using automated testing with multiple datasets, and find that Amazon Nova Canvas performs well on common types of toxicity. For example, on a proprietary toxic image-prompt dataset (3k samples) which we classified into sub-categories (for example, violence, gore, self-harm), Amazon Nova Canvas's end-to-end toxicity guardrails accurately block 98.1% of toxic content. Recall is the rate at which toxic prompts are blocked given a set of only toxic prompts, while accuracy is the rate at which toxic prompts are blocked and non-toxic prompts are not blocked given a set of both toxic and non-toxic prompts. @@ -165 +172,3 @@ Safety is a shared responsibility between AWS and our customers. Our goal for sa - * _Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM):_ At Amazon, we are [committed](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/02/6c/15f9b50d43c78d2b25f69616b8b6/safety-by-design-for-gen-ai-toolkit-for-public-commitments-publicity.pdf) to producing generative AI services that keep child safety at the forefront of development, deployment, and operation. We utilize Amazon Bedrock's Abuse Detection solution (mentioned above), which uses hash matching or classifiers to detect potential CSAM. If Amazon Bedrock detects apparent CSAM in user image inputs, it will block the request, display an automated error message and may also file a report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) or a relevant authority. We take CSAM seriously and will continue to update our detection, blocking, and reporting mechanisms. + * _Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM):_ Amazon Nova Canvas utilizes Amazon Bedrock's Abuse Detection solution (mentioned above), which uses hash matching or classifiers to detect potential CSAM. If Amazon Bedrock detects apparent CSAM in Amazon Nova Canvas user image inputs it will block the request, display an automated error message and may also file a report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) or a relevant authority. We take CSAM commitments seriously and will continue to update our detection, blocking, and reporting mechanisms. + + * _Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN):_ Compared to information available via internet searches, science articles, and paid experts, we see no indications that Amazon Nova Canvas increases access to information about chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear threats. We continue to test for CBRN risk, and engage with other vendors to share, learn about, and mitigate possible CBRN threats and vulnerabilities. @@ -175 +184 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas is designed to generate images that a diverse set of customer - 1. It is not currently possible to build training datasets that cover all varieties of every object; however, for humans in particular, we aim to combat societal bias and cultural appropriation. We test Amazon Nova Canvas ability to moderate these outcomes using a proprietary dataset of aggregated red teaming iterations that depict bias, stereotyping, and hate against individuals and groups. We find that Amazon Nova Canvas blocks 97.3.5% of observed bias in generations. + 1. It is not currently possible to build training datasets that cover all varieties of every object; however, for humans in particular, we aim to combat societal bias and cultural appropriation. We test Amazon Nova Canvas ability to moderate these outcomes using a proprietary dataset of aggregated red teaming iterations that depict bias, stereotyping, and hate against individuals and groups. We find that Amazon Nova Canvas blocks 97.3% of observed bias in generations. @@ -185 +194 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas is designed to generate images that a diverse set of customer -Customers wanting to interpret the output of an Amazon Nova model can utilize [Titan Multimodal Embeddings](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/titan-multiemb-models.html) to output numerical representations (known as embeddings) of both the prompt text and the generated image produced by the model. These embeddings capture the semantic information present in the prompts and Nova model's outputs and can be compared (using cosine similarity, euclidean distance or some other measure) to verify that the produced output is consistent with the input prompt. Generated output that is more consistent with the prompt will have larger similarity (lower distance) than output that does not contain relevant information. +Customers wanting to interpret the output of an Amazon Nova model can utilize [Titan Multimodal Embeddings](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/titan-multiemb-models.html) to output numerical representations (known as embeddings) of both the prompt text and the generated image produced by the model. These embeddings capture the semantic information present in the prompts and images, and can be compared (using cosine similarity, Euclidean distance or some other measure) to verify that the produced image contains similar information as specified in the input prompt. Generated images that contain relevant information to the input prompt will have larger similarity (lower distance) than images that do not contain relevant information. @@ -190 +199 @@ Customers wanting to interpret the output of an Amazon Nova model can utilize [T -Images created by diffusion models can contain unrealistic representations of known objects or representations of new objects that are not physically possible in the real world. From a customer's perspective, whether this is an advantage or a disadvantage depends on the use case. Nova was trained to favor generating more "typical" objects (e.g., hands with five fingers) unless otherwise specified in the prompt. +Images created by diffusion models can contain unrealistic representations of known objects or representations of new objects that are not physically possible in the real world. From a customer's perspective, whether this is an advantage or a disadvantage depends on the use case. Amazon Nova Canvas was trained to favor generating more "typical" objects (for example, hands with five fingers) unless otherwise specified in the prompt. However, there are many possible objects, and many possible relationships between objects, so the fine-tuning feature allows customers to adjust the model to better represent objects and object relationships important to their use case. We conduct evaluations on [Text-to-Image Faithfulness (TIFA)](https://tifa-benchmark.github.io/) score which is a reference-free metric that measures the faithfulness of a generated image to the input text via visual question answering (VQA). The evaluation set for [TIFA](https://tifa-benchmark.github.io/) score is a preselected 4k prompts in the TIFA-v1.0 benchmark, sampled from MSCOCO captions, DrawBench, PartiPrompts, and PaintSkill datasets. Amazon Nova Canvas scores 0.897 (from a range of [0,1]). @@ -195 +204 @@ Images created by diffusion models can contain unrealistic representations of kn -Amazon Nova Canvas is optimized for creativity. Customers can expect that similar prompts will generate similar outputs, in the sense that "_the blue backpack_ " and "_a blue backpack_ " will both yield images that contain blue backpacks. However, customers should not expect that semantically identical prompts (as above) will necessarily generate identical outputs, given the goal of novelty. Instead, we prioritize having the focus of the generated outputs align with the focus of the text prompt. We measure this alignment with testing on both public benchmarks and proprietary datasets. For example, Amazon Nova Canvas scored 0.897 using TIFA and 1.250 using Image Reward. +Amazon Nova Canvas is optimized for creativity. Customers can expect that similar prompts will generate similar outputs, in the sense that "_the blue backpack_ " and "_a blue backpack_ " will both yield images that contain blue backpacks. However, customers should not expect that semantically identical prompts (as above) will necessarily generate identical outputs, given the goal of novelty. Instead, we prioritize having the focus of the generated outputs align with the focus of the text prompt. We measure this alignment with testing on both public benchmarks and proprietary datasets. For example, Amazon Nova Canvas scored 0.897 using [TIFA](https://tifa-benchmark.github.io/) and 1.250 using [ImageReward](https://github.com/THUDM/ImageReward) (from a range of [-2,2]). @@ -200 +209 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas is optimized for creativity. Customers can expect that simila -Amazon Nova Canvas is available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock is a managed service and does not store or review customer prompts or customer image outputs, and prompts and outputs are never shared between customers, or with Amazon Bedrock third party model providers. AWS does not use inputs or outputs generated through the Amazon Bedrock service to train Amazon Bedrock models, including Amazon Nova Canvas. For more information, see Section 50.3 of the [AWS Service Terms](https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/) and the [AWS Data Privacy FAQs](https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/). For service-specific privacy information, see Security in the [Amazon Bedrock FAQs](https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/faqs/). +Amazon Nova Canvas is available on Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock is a managed service and does not store or review customer prompts or customer image outputs, and prompts and outputs are never shared between customers, or with Amazon Bedrock third party model providers. AWS does not use inputs or outputs generated through the Amazon Bedrock service to train Amazon Bedrock models, including Amazon Nova Canvas. For more information, see Section 50.3 of the [AWS Service Terms](https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/) and the [AWS Data Privacy FAQs](https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/). For service-specific privacy information, see Security in the [Amazon Bedrock FAQs](https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/faqs/). @@ -215 +224 @@ All Amazon Bedrock models, including Amazon Nova Canvas, come with enterprise se -Amazon Nova Canvas is designed for generation of new creative content. AWS offers uncapped intellectual property (IP) indemnity coverage for outputs of generally available Amazon Nova models (see Section 50.10 of the [AWS Service Terms](https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/)). This means that customers are protected from third-party claims alleging IP infringement or misappropriation (including copyright claims) by the outputs generated by these Amazon Nova models. In addition, our standard IP indemnity for use of the Services protects customers from third-party claims alleging IP infringement (including copyright claims) by the Services (including Amazon Nova models) and the data used to train them. +Amazon Nova Canvas is designed for generation of new creative content. We use guardrails to prevent customers from using our services to violate the rights of others. AWS offers uncapped intellectual property (IP) indemnity coverage for outputs of generally available Amazon Nova models (see Section 50.10 of the [AWS Service Terms](https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/)). This means that customers are protected from third-party claims alleging IP infringement or misappropriation (including copyright claims) by the outputs generated by these Amazon Nova models. In addition, our standard IP indemnity for use of the Services protects customers from third-party claims alleging IP infringement (including copyright claims) by the Services (including Amazon Nova models) and the data used to train them. @@ -220 +229 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas is designed for generation of new creative content. AWS offer -Amazon Nova Canvas provides information to customers in the following locations: this Service Card, AWS documentation, AWS educational channels (for example, blogs, developer classes), the AWS Console, and in the image outputs themselves. We accept feedback through customer support mechanisms such as account managers. Where appropriate for their use case, customers who incorporate Nova models in their workflow should consider disclosing their use of ML to end users and other individuals impacted by the application, and customers should give their end users the ability to provide feedback to improve workflows. In their documentation, customers can also reference this Service Card. +Amazon Nova Canvas provides information to customers in the following locations: this Service Card, AWS documentation, AWS educational channels (for example, blogs, developer classes), the AWS Console, and in the image outputs themselves. We accept feedback through customer support mechanisms such as account managers. Where appropriate for their use case, customers who incorporate Amazon Nova Canvas in their workflow should consider disclosing their use of ML to end users and other individuals impacted by the application, and customers should give their end users the ability to provide feedback to improve workflows. In their documentation, customers can also reference this Service Card. @@ -224 +233 @@ Amazon Nova Canvas provides information to customers in the following locations: - * _Content Credentials:_ To increase transparency around AI-generated content, Amazon Nova Canvas also adds content credentials to images it generates. Content Credentials are based on a technical specification developed and maintained by the [Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity](https://c2pa.org/) (C2PA), a cross-industry standards development organization. C2PA metadata includes the model, the platform, and the task type used to generate the image which allows people to identify the source/provenance of generated images. + * _Content Credentials:_ To increase transparency around AI-generated content, Amazon Nova Canvas also adds content credentials to images it generates. Content Credentials are based on a technical specification developed and maintained by the [Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity](https://c2pa.org/) (C2PA), a cross-industry standards development organization. C2PA metadata includes the model, the platform, and the task type used to generate the image which allows people to identify the source/provenance of generated images. See [C2PA’s visualization tool](https://contentcredentials.org/verify). @@ -245 +254 @@ The performance of any application using Amazon Nova Canvas depends on the desig - 2. **Configuration:** In addition to the required text prompt, Amazon Nova Canvas has various required and optional configuration parameters to help customers achieve the best results. For more information, see [Amazon Nova User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide). + 2. **Configuration:** In addition to the required text prompt, Amazon Nova Canvas has various required and optional configuration parameters to help customers achieve the best results. For more information, see [Amazon Nova User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide). Amazon Nova Canvas provides several configuration parameters for image generation: text, negative text, dimensions, quality, CFG scale, and seed. The text parameter is required and must be 1-1024 characters, serving as the prompt that guides image creation. Negative text, also 1-1024 characters, optionally specifies elements to exclude from the image. Width and height parameters determine the image dimensions, defaulting to 1024x1024, with various supported resolutions available. Quality can be set to either "standard" (default) or "premium". The CFG (Configuration) scale controls how closely the generated image follows the prompt – lower values introduce more randomness and creativity. The seed parameter sets the initial noise configuration; keeping all other parameters constant while varying the seed produces different images that still maintain consistency with the specified prompt and settings. Users should experiment with these parameters to achieve their desired results. @@ -257 +266,3 @@ The performance of any application using Amazon Nova Canvas depends on the desig - 4. **Human Oversight:** If a customer's application workflow involves a high risk or sensitive use case, such as a decision that impacts an individual's rights or access to essential services, human review should be incorporated into the application workflow where appropriate. + 4. **Model Customization:** Customization, or fine-tuning, can make the base image generation model more effective for a specific use case. Customers can directly adapt Amazon Nova Canvas for their own use cases by fine-tuning the model on their own labeled data. For details related to customizing the base model, see our [customization guidelines](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/customize-fine-tune.html). + + 5. **Human Oversight:** If a customer's application workflow involves a high risk or sensitive use case, such as a decision that impacts an individual's rights or access to essential services, human review should be incorporated into the application workflow where appropriate. @@ -259 +270 @@ The performance of any application using Amazon Nova Canvas depends on the desig - 5. **Performance Drift:** A change in the types of prompts that a customer submits (for example, asking for photo-realistic generations instead of animated generations) to Amazon Nova Canvas might lead to different outputs. To address these changes, customers should consider periodically retesting the performance of Amazon Nova Canvas and adjust their workflow if necessary. + 6. **Performance Drift:** A change in the types of prompts that a customer submits (for example, asking for photo-realistic generations instead of animated generations) to Amazon Nova Canvas might lead to different outputs. To address these changes, customers should consider periodically retesting the performance of Amazon Nova Canvas and adjust their workflow if necessary. @@ -261 +272 @@ The performance of any application using Amazon Nova Canvas depends on the desig - 6. **Updates:** We will notify customers when we release a new version, and will provide customers time to migrate from an old version to the new one. Customers should consider retesting the performance of the new Nova model version on their use cases when changing to the updated model. + 7. **Model Updates:** When we release new versions of Amazon Nova Canvas, customers may experience changes in performance on their use cases. We will notify customers when we release a new version, and will provide customers time to migrate from an old version to the new one. Customers should consider retesting the performance of the new Nova models on their use cases. @@ -273,0 +285,2 @@ The performance of any application using Amazon Nova Canvas depends on the desig + * For other tools to help customers work with foundation models, see [Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/), [Amazon Bedrock Guardrails](https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/guardrails/), [Automated reasoning checks](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-bedrock-guardrails-automated-reasoning-checks-preview/), [Amazon Q developer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/what-is.html), and [Nova Understanding Models](https://aws.amazon.com/ai/generative-ai/nova/understanding/). +