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.”

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I just mentioned this in another comment tonight; cryptographic verification has existed for years but basically no one has adopted it for anything. Some people still seem to think pasting an image of your handwriting on a document is “signing” a document somehow.

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Still trying to get people to sign their emails lol

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I mean, part of it is PGP is the exact opposite of streamlined and you’ve got to be NSA levels of paranoid to bother with it.

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It’s automated in all mainstream email clients, you don’t even have to think about it if a contact has it set up

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It doesn’t help that in a lot of cases, this is actually accepted by a shit ton of important institutions that should be better, but aren’t.

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