AI Imagery: Starting Now, All Still Or Video Imagery Must Be Assumed Fake By Default
re: artificial intelligence
re: Michael Erlewine
re: Will AI Doom Photography, News, Truth?
re: AI and Photography, Weaponization of AI
Starting this year, all still or video imagery must be assumed fake by default. This has long been the case in the “news” (for many reasons), but it must now be the default for all imagery everywhere.
Credibility can be based on certification of some kind, such as cryptographic signing, along with the past history and crediblity of the certifier. It’s a huge can of worms, nonetheless.
Digital notarization for imagery
Perhaps we need a new requirement for cameras: cryptographically-signed imagery so that you and I can prove cryptographically “I made this image”. And more importantly, so that others cannot claim you or I made an image (eg one that might get you into trouble, or defame you).
And since I shoot RAW format, a similar cryptographic signature would be needed for the images I publish, including author’s comments or testimony as to their manipulation or lack thereof.
Of course, such systems are only as good as the security of the cryptographic key, yet another security challenge.
The legal system
Consider AI imagery that falsely portrays a person in a compromising situation. Presumably this would a form of libel, but that does not stop a reputation from overnight destruction. New laws with harsh penalties are likely needed for such things.
Expect convictions in the court system based on falsefied imagery. IMO, courts should not accept imagery as evidence unless it can be proven (using AI or other methods) that it is original and unaltered and not AI generated.
Reader Comments
Michael E writes:
I always sign my Midjourney graphics with this: [Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]
DIGLLOYD: that’s great in informing a viewer. But it is a claim that cannot be certified, eg someone could generate child porn, and instruct the AI to sign it as someone else. It has to be a cryptographic assertion that only the real person could generate.
