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Matt Stoker
@focusreact.bsky.social

It seems to me that we need a new image format with baked-in digital signature support, that smartphones can sign as authentic or modified. social media sites should validate those signatures, and communicate that information (or its absence) to viewers. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

wbur.orgDoes a picture prove anything anymore?Millions of people now own smartphones where, with just a tap, you can erase people from pictures -- and even add AI generated content that never existed. What does this mean for our shared reality?

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Matt Stoker
@focusreact.bsky.social

of course, this would necessitate storing the signing private key on the device. this won't matter for 99.999% of users who aren't savvy enough to extract it and use it to nefarious ends, but that 0.001% who are savvy enough could wreak havoc. how can we trust what we see in this brave new world?

Gabe Epstein
@2slow2courteous.bsky.social

I suppose by establishing small social networks of trust and real world interaction. We may go back to the days when your word is your social currency and challenging someone’s integrity in public is fightin’ words