The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for deepfakes
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Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."

The White House wants to ‘cryptographically verify’ videos of Joe Biden so viewers don’t mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden’s AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is “in the works.”

  • Oliver Lowe
    2•10 months ago

    A link to the video could be shared via ActivityPub.
    The video would be loaded over HTTPS; we can verify that the video is from the white house, and that it hasn’t been modified in-transit.

    A big issue is that places don’t want to share a link to an independently verifiable video, they want you to load a copy of it from their website/app. This way we build trust with the brand (e.g. New York Times), and spend more time looking at ads or subscribe.
    @stockRot @technology

    • @stockRotEnglish
      1•10 months ago

      A big issue is that places don’t want to share a link to an independently verifiable video, they want you to load a copy of it from their website/app.

      Exactly. This “solution” doesn’t take into account how people actually use the Internet. Unless we expect billions of people to change their behavior, this is just a pointless comment.