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The inevitable outcome is that no recorded media will be taken at face value unless there is immense proof in some way of its veracity. In the short term, this
by GuiA 9y ago
The inevitable outcome is that no recorded media will be taken at face value unless there is immense proof in some way of its veracity.
In the short term, this will probably lead to all kinds of terrible things (kids getting bullied through computer generated imagery of them, people being fired for videos of them saying things they never said, jealous spurned lovers attempting to break apart marriages with fake videos, etc.)
In the long term, it might actually be a good thing - instilling a strong sense of caution for anything that claims to be recorded from the real world.
- gknoy 9y agoHow do you hold people accountable for bad behavior (e.g. police behaving poorly when making an arrest or traffic stop) when the video evidence is viewed as "easily faked"? I mean, eyewitness testimony has been proven many times to be faulty, but presumably someone with an axe to grind (and some AWS credits?) could make fake videos of all sorts of bad things _from multiple perspectives_. Scary indeed.
- Chaebixi 9y agoWell in the police conduct case, if they're wearing a body camera, you can still have a properly-documented chain-of-custody backing up the photo evidence. We've had good technology for the forgery of printed documents for a long time, and the world hasn't ended.
- Angostura 9y agoCameras that digitally sign each frame?
- PeterisP 9y agoAll that does is link that frame to [a key in] the particular camera. It doesn't verify that the frame was "real" in some way. It defends whoever controls [the key in] that camera from others secretly tampering with that frame afterwards, but it doesn't defend others from tampering by whoever controls [the key in] that camera. Central signature verification or blockchain could verify a timestamp - i.e. prove that the frame was taken (or maliciously created) before a particular time. That's about it.
- DanBC 9y ago> The inevitable outcome is that no recorded media will be taken at face value unless there is immense proof in some way of its veracity. Exactly the opposite happened with print media, where any old bollocks is believed if it aligns with the readers viewpoint.