While manipulation of photographic images is literally as old as photography itself, the new AI "fabrication" systems being heavily promoted by Google, Samsung, Apple, and others is guaranteeing that photography is not only utterly untrustworthy, but in some senses, utterly worthless.
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@lauren it's an ax I've been grinding for years that we needed to normalize something like cryptographic signing to authenticate both text and visual media.
And so I'm particularly annoyed to see us get to the point I've been fearing for a decade, where such image manipulation is snowballing, but we didn't put in place norms to detect it already.
Siiiigh.
Nerds in academia have been sounding this alarm, but ah well.
