Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research
- Today, powerful, widely available AI tools allow users to easily generate or alter photorealistic images to a degree that was difficult to imagine just a few years ago.
- These tools enable helpful features, like one-touch removal of background distractions, but they also make it difficult to distinguish between photographs that depict real events, and synthetic images that are heavily altered or entirely generated.
- So, in the case where the essential role of a photograph is to prove that something actually happened, an image appearing photorealistic is no longer sufficient to establish its vera
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- Today, powerful, widely available AI tools allow users to easily generate or alter photorealistic images to a degree that was difficult to imagine just a few years ago.
- These tools enable helpful features, like one-touch removal of background distractions, but they also make it difficult to distinguish between photographs that depict real events, and synthetic images that are heavily altered or entirely generated.
- So, in the case where the essential role of a photograph is to prove that something actually happened, an image appearing photorealistic is no longer sufficient to establish its vera
Sources: Apple