>Nobody has ever walked past a photograph because they can't inspect its digital authenticity hash.
This has rapidly changed over the last few months. As more and more pictures/videos going viral on social media are AI-generated [0, 1], real pictures/videos of remarkable things are increasingly falsely called out as AI-generated [2]. People are definitely starting to care, and while the toy camera in the linked article is merely an artistic statement, having some ubiquitously standardized way of unambiguously validating content generated by a real recording device is going to become paramount.
This has rapidly changed over the last few months. As more and more pictures/videos going viral on social media are AI-generated [0, 1], real pictures/videos of remarkable things are increasingly falsely called out as AI-generated [2]. People are definitely starting to care, and while the toy camera in the linked article is merely an artistic statement, having some ubiquitously standardized way of unambiguously validating content generated by a real recording device is going to become paramount.
[0] https://www.today.com/news/bunnies-jumping-trampoline-viral-...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O-8kAnBL2s
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/1oeda67/my_highligh...