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Re:A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way by brookst on Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:43AM (#38050688)
Trust can never be 100% proven in anything. None of these mitigations are intended to provide that level of technically impossible certainty.

The intent of all trust systems is to make it more difficult (technically, financially) to falsify information. It’s a statistics game β€” the harder it is to break a trust system, the fewer people will do it. This is true for everything from house keys to PKI to currency to ID cards.

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Re:A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way by crazygringo on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:06PM (#38050877)
But this isn't like ID cards.

The general population doesn't care about whether an image was cryptographically signed. It's going to have zero effect.

People who don't care about the truth are going to continue to pass around edited images, while those who do get their news from trusted journalists and aren't paying attention to random images on social networks.

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