The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes - eviltoast

The White House wants to ‘cryptographically verify’ videos of Joe Biden so viewers don’t mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden’s AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is “in the works.”

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Once an original video is cryptographically signed, could future uploads be automatically verified based on pixels plus audio? Could allow for commentary to clip the original.

    Might need some kind of minimum length restriction to prevent deceptive editing which simply (but carefully) scrambles original footage.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      not really… signing is only possible on exact copies (like byte exact; not even “the same image” but the same image, formatted the same, without being resized, etc)… there are things called perceptual hashes, and ways of checking if images are similar, but cryptography wouldn’t really help there