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.”

  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The best way this could be handled is a green check mark near the video that you could click on it and it would give you all the meta data of the video (location, time, source, etc) with a digital signature (what would look like a random string of text) that you could click on and your browser would show you the chain of trust, where the signature came from, that it’s valid, probably the manufacturer of the equipment it was recorded on, etc.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      The issue is making that green check mark hard to fake for bad actors. Https works because it is verified by the browser itself, outside the display area of the page. Unless all sites begin relying on a media player packed into the browser itself, if the verification even appears to be part of the webpage, it could be faked.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        Hope verification gets built in to operating systems as compromised applications present a risk too.

        But I’m sure a crook would build a MAGA Verifier since you can’t trust liberal Apple/Microsoft technology.