Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 3:12 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> GPS works entirely passively on the receiver side. There would be no > external validation of the GPS coordinates.* > I know, but I don't think it would be very difficult to add that functionality. Or you could have the cell phone providers

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 3:04 PM John Clark wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:59 PM Jason Resch wrote: > > > *> How does Apple (or whoever is signing the image and its metadata) know >> it was taken by an iphone at a particular location?* >> > > Regardless of how the picture was produced, the

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:59 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> How does Apple (or whoever is signing the image and its metadata) know > it was taken by an iphone at a particular location?* > Regardless of how the picture was produced, the GPS timestamp created by the GPS people can verify exactly when

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 1:28 PM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:06 PM Jason Resch wrote: > > >> I don't care if Joe Blow signs it or not with his private key that's >>> on his iPhone because I have no reason to trust Mr. Blow. I want the Apple >>> Corporation and the people who run

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:06 PM Jason Resch wrote: >> I don't care if Joe Blow signs it or not with his private key that's on >> his iPhone because I have no reason to trust Mr. Blow. I want the Apple >> Corporation and the people who run the GPS satellites to sign a hash >> function of the

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 12:31 PM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:54 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > >> I agree, but I think most people, myself included, would trust that >>> the entire GPS satellite system is unlikely to be part of some grand >>> conspiracy of deception, nor is it likely

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:54 AM Jason Resch wrote: >> I agree, but I think most people, myself included, would trust that the >> entire GPS satellite system is unlikely to be part of some grand conspiracy >> of deception, nor is it likely that the Apple Corporation is stupid enough >> to do so

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 10:44 AM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:11 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > *> I think such protocols are only useful for verifying whether the image >> came from an already known and trusted source. I don't see that it could >> verify whether some content is

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:11 AM Jason Resch wrote: *> I think such protocols are only useful for verifying whether the image > came from an already known and trusted source. I don't see that it could > verify whether some content is genuine or not if you didn't already > know/trust the entity it

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
I think such protocols are only useful for verifying whether the image came from an already known and trusted source. I don't see that it could verify whether some content is genuine or not if you didn't already know/trust the entity it is purported to come from (and trust that they would not

Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread John Clark
Now that AI art is so good it's becoming impossible to determine if a photograph is real or fake, but a new open-source internet protocol called "C2PA" may offer a solution. If camera and smartphone makers agree to do so their products would all have a feature (which I hope you would be allowed to