> the answers involve educating the public so that they can tell fake from real
At some point, it will become impossible to tell the difference.
At some point, it will become impossible to tell the difference.
That way, you can set up a chain of trust, to track where some information is coming from.
This works as long as there is at least a top level signature provider that is uncorrupted. That will be hard in authoritarian societies and maybe even harder in radically polarized societies. Imagine a world where the CPP, DNC and GOP (and others) each controlled their own CA's, and had the ability to present a fake view of reality to their supporters.
Which can easily omit things they did say but wish they hadn't.
I live in Japan where Instax instant camera are super popular. Fujifilm makes more money off of making and selling Polaroid-style analog instant film than any single other business. The Impossible Project is cute and fun for hipsters but Instax has been there making film all along.
But they realized that young women today aren't happy how they look, and they want to use Instagram-style beauty filters on themselves, so they started selling Instax Bluetooth printers. They take analog instant film cartridges, but they use an LCD to imprint the photo onto them. So now you get the nostalgia of Polaroid photos, but you can edit your face as much as you want. Is this digital or analog?
It's just blurry digital. The polaroid film is acting as a really lossy medium for the digital information. Look close enough and you will likely still find artifacts of digital photography in the "film" printout.
By having a publicly associated wallet which can sign the release/link/buffer of an audio file one would be able to assure legitimacy of the output and the rest of the world can carry on without worrying they are being bamboozled by a deepfake.
However, blockchains have been going so deep down the path of cryptocurrencies and get rich quick schemes that their real use cases are being ignored for random tokens.
The blockchain I envision being used for this purpose I stated above would have no token, it would just be… a blockchain.
I guess you could have the ‘mining/POW’ part take place during the signing of the data and would be done by the signee.
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However, any system which can achieve the same goal is perfectly valid. This was just my initial thought — probably from my large exposure to blockchains etc
It is crazy if you need a good example of what Stephen Fry id talking about look at the "Attenborough Lore" channel. I honestly can't tell other than I doubt he'd do voice overs for dozens of 40k videos and the narrator is listed as "AI".