Just like https certificate authorities, the only way to fight all the AI slop will be “trusted” camera firmware that signs every image with a full chain of trust that the output was a real physical video taken will a real device at a real location.
Just like https certificate authorities, the only way to fight all the AI slop will be “trusted” camera firmware that signs every image with a full chain of trust that the output was a real physical video taken will a real device at a real location.
I’m not a researcher in this field, so I don’t have anything substantial to suggest. My opinion is that it is unsolvable.
No matter what you try, sufficiently powerful entities will be able to modify the sensor to sign images of anything they want to pass as real (or just use a very high quality projector)
It might be better that we are all always weary of an image being AI at this point.
It’s the same thing as with “watermarking” music files - it’s a bunch of hot air, anybody anywhere can just play them back and recapture the analog, and if the watermark survives that then it’s absolutely going to be audible.