alt Hacker NewsPut private key into every digital camera and hash/sign every frame. That private key is accompanied with manufacturer signature and can't be easily extracted. Mark all unsigned media as suspicious.
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"can't easily be extracted" = "the number of people who can extract it is small but still non-zero"
And those people now have the power to put you in jail, by putting your camera's signature on illegal content.
You've also just made journalism 3 notches harder. Like documenting atrocities in, say, North Korea. Or for whistleblowers in your home steel mill run by a corporate slavedriver.
Oh. Also. Why are you choosing the camera side to put this on? Why not the AI side? Require watermarks and signatures for anything created in such a way…
…of course that has its own set of intractable problems.
That makes it easy to prove authenticity (has signature), but doesn’t solve the “prove it’s fake” problem.
Isn't that similar to this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Authenticity_Initiativ...
That certainly won't be used to violate someone's privacy.
More surveillance and tracking won't be the solution.
"and can't be easily extracted" is doing a lot of work there. People are very good at reverse-engineering. There would soon be a black market for 'clean' private keys that could be used to sign any video you want.