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Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place

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Re: Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place

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This is really cool, but I have a question. If we go back to using actual film does this help at all? I can imagine cameras and recorders for things like war capturing two copies; one digital, one film. If there are unfakeable or hard to fake artifacts in film one could imagine the recordings could validate each other. It would also make good insurance against cyber attack from illiberal governments.

Film can be "faked". Negatives can be modified. They're all chemical processes that can be coaxed into producing images that didn't exist when the photo was taken.

Re: Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place

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post #10

Even if this technology can spot fakes, humans can't, that the whole point and danger of such lifelike fakes. People are used to react to images in a certain way, I'm sure a large part of which is hardwired in our brains, we aren't going to start checking cryptographic signatures for everything we see

BeyondCorp for life?

Re: Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place

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Proving the legitimacy of a photo or video is a great problem to try to solve in the age of "fake news" accusations and extremely powerful editing software.

While I agree in principle, I don’t think merely having this technological capability is sufficient. At this point, unfortunately, accusations of “fake news” seem to be blindly believed without verification even if facts are clearly available and easily accessible.

True. People can always find a reason to justify their belief or disbelief if they really want to.
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