‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec
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“There is no real picture, full stop.”

‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec.::Samsung’s head of product is now saying that every photo is fake. Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 phones increase the ways that the company uses AI to produce pictures.

  • @taanegl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24•5 months ago

    Phone cameras have been a boon for democracy, because it’s hard to deny something when visual evidence can be provided to defend against denial and dismissal.

    With deep fakes coming down the pipeline, expect people to scream “DEEP FAKES” when visual evidence is prevented, an argument that becomes more legitimate with the passage of time.

    Therefore, we’d need a way to create photos and videos with phone cameras that can not be deep faked, perhaps with a form of digital certification and signing, or cryptographic hashing, a fingerprint so to speak, that intrinsically linked to the digital photo.

    That might mean a new raw and/or compressed digital format with the feature built-in, but also a standardised chipset to go with it.

    • @9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12•5 months ago

      The digital signature thing doesnt work when the device signing the photo has the built in capability to significantly manipulate the photo using AI (which is what samsung and friends are putting forth as a feature)

      • @taanegl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6•5 months ago

        There could be many ways neither you, he or I could envision. Dismissing it off hand is self defeatist.

        For instance, how about a permanent, one-time write storage, that can’t be overwritten and is directly written to from the CMOS, as a matter of law and regulation.

        Such a concept should be developed acedemically, because Samsung has zero interest in giving you anything that empowers you, while you’re here on Lemmy, dismissing an important thing off-hand because you lack the imagination or even the curiosity to even achieve such a goal.

        Always remember: being a defeatist is exactly what people want you to be, because then you are powerless.

        Seek to empower people instead, and don’t dismiss things as impossible when you nor the Samsung exec have disproven any idea or notion with anything but the status quo problem - and the status quo can always change, in regards to hardware, software and technology.