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A comment on Ask HN: Can cryptographic time-stamping protect our history from deepfakes?.

Re:Ask HN: Can cryptographic time-stamping protect our histo... by Someone on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:24PM (#32817933)
I don’t see how that would prevent deep-fakes from being made for past events.

Cryptographic time-stamping can show that a set of images existed at some time, but not that no other images existed at that time.

So, unless you manage to time-stamp most images in the world, there will be a huge set of images without provenance.

The creator of fake content will just add to that set.

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Re:Ask HN: Can cryptographic time-stamping protect our histo... by axelsvensson on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:17AM (#32820902)
That's why I'd like to see a web archive doing this, so that most publicly accessible content gets a timestamp. That way, it would be suspicious to present an image of an event in the far past that should've been published long ago.
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