Paranoid Androids - the Deepfake Thread™

[BurtReynolds]

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[Mike]

You’ll definitely get a lot of “experts say the footage lacks a footprint, so it’s probably fake, but then how do you explain x,” but that will just be another generational gap in tech literacy. Millennials onward will handle it well, the rest of us will embarrass ourselves.

I’m not following how this works or what you mean by footprint (do you mean fingerprint?) Do you have a link or something that goes into better detail?

You could put a digital signature on any file you like. News site (or anyone really) could put their digital signature on videos they created which could be verified by anyone. This way you can at least know who created a video and decide if you trust the source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature

Thinking a step further: Maybe in the future only videos taken with specific software that automatically signs the video can be used in court.