Samsung

Cryptographic 'legitimacy seal' baked into cameras to fight deepfakes

Shaan argues the only durable defense against deepfakes is a tamper-proof cryptographic seal applied by the device at capture time, so people learn to trust only video carrying that seal. He notes only Apple, Samsung, and camera makers can implement it, not a startup.

“the phone makers themselves, the device makers themselves, will need to put a cryptographic seal on the video when it's taken. And it's like a tamper-proof seal, like we have with medicine or whatever, where it's like, if this seal is broken, that means this video has been edited in some way. And so at some point people will only trust videos or photos that have this cryptographic seal on them”

Steal thisBuild trust infrastructure at the point of capture, not after the fact; con artists always beat post-hoc validation.