I’m finding it harder and harder to tell whether an image has been generated or not (the main giveaways are disappearing). This is probably going to become a big problem in like half a year’s time. Does anyone know of any proof of legitimacy projects that are gaining traction? I can imagine news orgs being the first to be hit by this problem. Are they working on anything?
Perhaps a trusted certificate system (similar to https) might work for proving legitimacy?
Camera companies have been working on this. They have been trying to create a system that makes it possible to detect if an image has been tampered with https://www.lifewire.com/camera-makers-authentication-prevent-deepfakes-8422784
However this signature probably just uses assymetric encryption which could mean that the signing key on the device could be extracted and abused.