Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech

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I guess this is better than nothing, but what happens if you take a photo of a generated photo? There are setups where the result will be impossible to tell that it's a photo of a photo, and then you can have the camera digitally sign the fake photo as real.

Consoles (Xbox, Nintendo, PlayStation) are all hacked eventually. All that will happen is someone will hack a camera to sign any image sent to it.

I think this tech (signed pictures) is just going to make the problem worse. Once a camera is hacked, it's "signed" but fake... Same spot we are now but now we have fake verified pictures

And consoles are a walled garden, here you would have to build a resilient trust network for all camera manufacturers, any private key gets leaked and the system is compromised.

Sony will ban any PSN account if they found using a modded console.

And I'll be sure to let them know that I use windower add-ons and DAT mods when playing FF11. Maybe they'll ban my PS2/PlayOnline from any future updates?

Facebook will not ban users spreading fake signed pictures.

It's not just a sig on the image, but on metadata as well. Harder to fake time + place if they implement it thoroughly. (I.e., they would have to make it only trust GPS and verify against an internal clock, I suppose, and not allow updating time and location manually.)

...including the date and time a photo was taken as well as its location and the photographer...

That raises the bar on faking but doent rule it out just give more credit to those who can fake it

Not including gps and time makes this worse, but including it makes it useless because you can't ever verify a photo sent across social media, since the exit tags will be stripped.