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No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 26 points 3 months ago (5 children)

We've had fake photos for over 100 years at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

Maybe it's time to do something about confirming authenticity, rather than just accepting any old nonsense as evidence of anything.

At this point anything can be presented as evidence, and now can be equally refuted as an AI fabrication.

We need a new generation of secure cameras with internal signing of images and video (to prevent manipulation), built in LIDAR (to make sure they're not filming a screen), periodic external timestamps of data (so nothing can be changed after the supposed date), etc.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

What in the world is going on with Elsie's hand in the "second of the five photographs?"

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