No one’s ready for this. (our basic assumptions of photos changing)
AI summary of the linked articleThe Verge's Sarah Jeong argues that the Pixel 9's Magic Editor makes convincing fake photos in under 10 seconds, and that this will flip the default assumption about photos from authentic to faked. The article says the Reimagine tool produced realistic images such as an explosion beside a brick building and a cockroach in takeout. It notes that Reimagine edits carry only a removable metadata line, while Google's SynthID watermark is applied to Pixel Studio outputs. Google communications manager Alex Moriconi said the company's guardrails and policies limit abusive content, but the article contends that standard content moderation will not preserve the photograph's value as evidence. |
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2 comments I’m wondering if there wouldn’t be a low hanging fruit use case for blockchain tech here. What if you build a camera that would immediately produce an IPFS hash from the image data and upload and mint it to a blockchain? Then you’d have to use software that registers the provenance and each iteration is hashed and minted so the image builds a transaction history you could read on a block scanner. If you’d use it in the media you’d have to provide a verifiable link to this history and you would be able to trace the image back to the root. Proof of reality to restore trust in images. I think ethOS team was considering an app like that. That could be a nice tool for journalists |
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