This is terrible for privacy, and can be exploited by bad actors in a multitude of ways far worse than AI slop. A better option would be the ability to load your own cryptographic key into a device and "sign" images with an open standardized protocol in such a way that you can prove you took the image with x camera, and have the option to publicly attest that it was signed by your key at the moment of creation, but the camera images can't be cross referenced to a specific individual or camera otherwise. If someone is posting unmodified content to social media, it's in their interests to sign and attest that authenticity. You could also give users the choice to hide everything not attested.

This is how software is signed and released by (not shit) developers currently. It's also optional, so you can write and release code anonymously if you choose.

This is a terrible idea. So of course it already exists https://c2pa.org/

It's already being exploited https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html

We need a solution but that's not it.

Counterpoint: this will kill all whistleblowing and investigative journalism. All sources revealed in an instant. We already had it bad with the printers.

If AI is a concern mandatory AI fingerprinting as currently implemented is better.

#BLOCKCHAIN #WEDDING #PHOTOGRAPHY

That does exist

The problem us that it makes proprietary software mandatory

If your camera can't connect to the internet, the images on it can't be stolen. Same for editing software.

Surely there are ways to block software from sending copies of your photographs to their servers.

Not using cloud services is probably the easiest way to keep them from stealing your images.

Most cloud services say in the terms and services that you agree for them to have ownership of your files you upload. So just don't use cloud services.

Even though solid state hard drives have doubled in prices, you can still find the hard drive disk drives that are decent prices.

I just got a Seagate 4tb for $200. Store all your stuff on your drive. And don't use windows. Because they steal everything you have up on your monitor. They literally take screenshots.

You can try turning off WiFi while you edit photos. Idk if that will fix it or not. Ask someone who would know if that does anything. Maybe it just sends it all once it connects. ?

A lot of people talk about how terrible this is for privacy but personally I completely agree with OP for public videos. The leader of a country (or province/state/city/whatever) is going to give a speech?

I would like to be able to verify it's legitimate and accurate. Because we are already seeing political AI videos of made by the opposition of a candidate saying something they didn't actually say.

Now I actually think any videos badmouthing an opponent shouldn't be allowed. All political videos should be on a given candidate's platform and how that will help the people they represent, and can't discuss the opponent at all, but that's just not how it works right now.

I'll also add I have no idea how that certificate chain can be validated in a way by me that the government can't just up and change something. They control the camera. They control the root cert, I assume. They can issue new certs whenever they want. I have no way of validating the original footage was from that camera with that cert in any way that I can think of. Not to mention another poster called out any editinf software you use will need to re-sign it. But maybe there's a way to take smaller clips from a public speech and still ensure they are signed by a given certificate the larger one was.

Or integrate GPG w something like OpenCamera. Then, every time you take a photo w your device... the photo could be signed automatically and transparently w your key.

If that existed and was used, it'd be simple to suppress Sloppy content.

In order for this to work, the private key used for signing has to be on the camera, and would have to be kept secret from the camera's owner. This is not possible. You can make it more difficult, use all sort of tricks to hide the key, but in the end, once somebody knows how you hide the key on their device, they'll always be able to find it. And once they have found the key, they can sign whatever false picture they want.

Navigating Adobe is like walking through a minefield nowadays. Thankfully they're nice enough to include a little AI badge that turns on when you hit an AI setting, but I'll just be working along and accidentally hit "Denoise" rather than "Manual Denoise" and bam, AI.

I wish apps would at least give you the option to disable AI. Honestly, it should be a legal requirement like GDPR

(Before the OSS recs come in, I'm unfortunately stuck on Adobe. There's a high chance I've used it anyways)

Can't work