Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec.
taanegl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Phone cameras have been a boon for democracy, because it’s hard to deny something when visual evidence can be provided to defend against denial and dismissal.
With deep fakes coming down the pipeline, expect people to scream “DEEP FAKES” when visual evidence is prevented, an argument that becomes more legitimate with the passage of time.
Therefore, we’d need a way to create photos and videos with phone cameras that can not be deep faked, perhaps with a form of digital certification and signing, or cryptographic hashing, a fingerprint so to speak, that intrinsically linked to the digital photo.
That might mean a new raw and/or compressed digital format with the feature built-in, but also a standardised chipset to go with it.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The digital signature thing doesnt work when the device signing the photo has the built in capability to significantly manipulate the photo using AI (which is what samsung and friends are putting forth as a feature)
taanegl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It isn’t impossible, just improbable, under current conditions of markets and technology.
Just saying the concept won’t work because a solution hasn’t been properly conceptualised, designed and developed yet is dismissive and self defeatist.
It needs to be developed and proven or even disproven acedemically, with falsifiable math and logic, by people more educated than you and me. Anecdotal evidence and sub position from an executive that represents a massive corporation is kind of irrelevant.
Besides, you do understand the importance, right? Why live leaks and multiple recordings have allowed people to be informed, and even brought people to justice. Do you want that to go away? Do you want people to be at the mercy of the powers that be?
For an executive of a fortune 500 company, that answer is a subconscious yes.
piecat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah- I don’t have any clue how you can prove it wasn’t edited, with a signature.