I was thinking about this the other day. The issue is if you have an imperfect test to detect fakes, it gives even more credibility to fakes that pass the test.
If there are no tests however, then were left to question the validity of everything
If there are no tests however, then were left to question the validity of everything
Unfortunately in this space the amount of deepfakes we can create is massive, so even a system thats 99.999% accurate will leave a lot of fakes through and grant them credibility.
I think we have to focus on an alternative path where we assume any digital content can be fake, unless its creation is provable through some verified sources or methods.
Maybe it's possible to embed some kind of digital fingerprint into images? So as to say, this image was definitely taken by this camera. Pretty sure something like this has been done.