• This Leica Camera Stops Deepfakes at the Shutter

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 19 15:50:16 2023
    This Leica Camera Stops Deepfakes at the Shutter

    First camera with built-in content credentials verifies photos'
    authenticity
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    And the M11-P is just the tip of the iceberg. Canon and Nikon already
    have prototype cameras with content credentialing support. Smartphones
    will also get in on the action. Truepic, a startup that builds
    "authenticity infrastructure," has partnered with Qualcomm to make
    Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips support content credentials; those
    chips will power flagship Android smartphones next year.
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    The explosion outside a hospital in Gaza on 17 October 2023
    underscored how content credentials could make a difference. Early
    reports pinned the blame on an Israel airstrike. Israel disputed these
    reports on social media and shared a video that claimed to show the
    blast was caused by a failed Palestinian rocket, but a New York Times
    reporter noticed it carried an incorrect time stamp, which cast doubt
    on its authenticity and bolstered suspicions about Israeli
    involvement.

    Other images eventually cast doubt on early headlines. New, verifiable
    photos and videos led to a report from AP News that said "a rocket
    launched from Gaza that failed mid-flight" was the likely cause of the
    hospital explosion. Other publications, including The New York Times
    and The Washington Post, published independent stories based on new photographic and video evidence that reached mixed conclusions about
    the blast's origins (which remain disputed). But verifying the photos
    and videos, which came from a variety of professional and amateur
    sources, took days. By then, many people had already formed their
    opinions about who was responsible.

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/leica-camera-content-credentials

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