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Authentication and corroboration of events in real-time. Don’t Trust…Verify.

[Wiink @WiinkTruth]

How do you respond when your eyes deceive you? When it is impossible to tell fact from fiction? What sources can you trust?

Don’t trust. Verify with Wiink!

[Wiink @WiinkTruth]

@balajis As generative ai becomes trivially cheap and pervasive, the scale of misinformation becomes unfathomably large. We are building the tools to authenticate truth on crypto rails because crypto is the yin to AI’s yang

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How do you respond when your eyes deceive you? When it is impossible to tell fact from fiction? What sources can you trust?

Don’t trust. Verify with Wiink!

[Balaji @balajis]

VERIFIABLE VIDEO

We need verifiable video to prove that footage hasn't been faked with AI.

We can get there with cryptocameras. Suppose that when you take a video, you can optionally put its hash onchain for a small fee. This is like a digital notary public. It establishes that (a) the video existed at that timestamp and (b) you are the user who wrote that video file to the blockchain.

Of course, it would still possible to take a video, manipulate it with AI, and then put its hash onchain it while claiming it’s real. But it could be made quite difficult, on par with spoofing Apple’s GPS or harder.

Any major social network could build verifiable video into their software right now. You just take the camera app and add “verifiabilty” as another mode. It’d be similar to slow-mo or time-lapse, but require a small fee to write a verifiable video onchain.

And any phone vendor could also put verifiable video into hardware if sufficient demand existed. They could probably make it very hard to fake by streaming the video hash live to the blockchain as it was recorded.

In fact, citizen journalists of the future might have to post verifiable videos, with an onchain checkmark next to them, or else people would consider them more likely to be fake.

So, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. AI makes everything easy to fake, but crypto makes it hard again.

PS: The use cases go way beyond media as well. If you generalize the concept of cryptocameras to cryptoinstruments, you could get verifiable chain of custody for every important piece of scientific data, like DNA sequencing data or temperature measurements. That could go a long way towards reducing academic fakery and dealing with the replication crisis.

[Wiink @WiinkTruth]

@balajis We are building this as one part of our real-time truth verification system. As generative ai becomes trivially cheap and quality continues to improve, the scale of ai generated misinformation will skyrocket. DMs always open.

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@hihellohihowru @balajis 👀

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

It's my theory that the age of AI and the ascendence of blockchain technology are about to collide and reinforce each other 💥

Why?

One is creating the indisputable need for the other.

Right now, AI is creating a world that will make images infinitely available. We will see a glut of them all over the internet. We're already seeing that, in fact.

So, imagine a world where you cannot trust a single JPG you see. You can't know if it's real or not, if it was taken by someone who says they took it, or if it depicts something real (we're already kind of seeing this, too.)

Now, imagine if the device you use to CAPTURE all these images could also inscribe a way to verify an image's origin on an immutable global ledger. "Yes, Alexis Ohanian took this photo Tuesday night at 7:42 PM." Your device could sign an immutable global ledger—a blockchain!—digitally, confirming that this .JPG is what it claims to be.

Suddenly, you have a great case for the blockchain that isn't speculative or particularly flashy – it's utility.

I don't know what projects will win in this space specifically, but to me, it feels pretty clear that there is an emergent market need. If you're a President or a CEO – even if you're just a teenage kid—it's about to be very, very valuable to prove that an image is yours.

[Jessica Barker MBE @drjessicabarker]

Meet Marilyn Monclone and friends 🤖

When they first emerged (in 2017), creating deepfakes took skill, time & a lot of data.

Now, the barrier to entry to create deepfakes has been lowered.

[Wiink @WiinkTruth]

@AdventusCapital @alexisohanian Absolutely

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