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Hopefully we’ll get back to the time back when people didn’t have to worry about someone filming them all the time. Cameras cryptographically signing all photo
by Sharlin 5mo ago
Hopefully we’ll get back to the time back when people didn’t have to worry about someone filming them all the time.
Cameras cryptographically signing all photos and videos should become the standard. Media that cannot be traced back to real camera hardware should a priori be considered fake or tampered with.
Still, deepfakes are partly a social problem and, as should be well known, social problems can rarely be solved by technological solutions.
- _el1s7 5mo agoThat won't work, a camera can also photograph another screen or a fake printed photo. And also cryptographic modules can be cracked.
- petesergeant 5mo agoI would have thought most iPhones absolutely know if they're photographing a scene or a flat surface
- _el1s7 5mo agoYes, iPhone has some clever depth technologies, but that doesn't mean it can't be tampered with.
- Sharlin 5mo agoNothing is ever foolproof, but also, public-key crypto signatures are as secure as can be. Sure, you might be able to eventually extract a private key from camera hardware, but that's on the level of intelligence agencies, completely beyond the current situation of deepfakes being possible to make by anyone with an internet connection and no skills.
- nvme0n1p1 5mo ago> that's on the level of intelligence agencies I think you meant to say: a single eastern European teenager who gets bored one weekend. These systems have been around for decades, and they've continually been hacked for decades too.
- CalRobert 5mo agoI can't imagine that governments will end their zeal for surveillance.
- sirsinsalot 5mo agoThis is another example of treating normal behaviour as criminal. Like banning VPNs or age verification. How about we undo the radical individualism that has rotted out any compassion and empathy from society in the pursuit of greed? Not as easy to do granted, but it's a social technical debt that can't be quick fixed.
- Sharlin 5mo agoI'm not sure how deepfakes are an example of "compassion and empathy rotted out from society in the pursuit of greed". They're just your standard issue human condition, if it's possible to grief a person then there's always someone willing to do just that. Doesn't mean we have to suffer that.
- sirsinsalot 5mo agoIn a compassionate society with community mindedness people are less likely to use tools like this for mindless hurt. Our current culture isnt aligned with compassion due to individualism and greed. You sound like you've given up on nurturing humanity and instead want to enforce good behaviour as if the base human condition is to hurt others by default. These are often young boys behaving in ways that are misogynistic and heartless. Usually following the examples of heartless parents and peers. We can do better. They're kids learning the wrongs lessons about the world.