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Adobe Is Using AI To Catch Photoshopped Images (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Adobe, certainly aware of how complicit its software is in the creation of fake news images, is working on artificial intelligence that can spot the markers of phony photos. In other words, the maker of Photoshop is tapping into machine learning to find out if someone has Photoshopped an image. Using AI to find fake images is a way for Adobe to help "increase trust and authenticity in digital media," the company says. That brings it in line with the likes of Facebook and Google, which have stepped up their efforts to fight fake news.
Whenever someone alters an image, unless they are pixel perfect in their work, they always leave behind indicators that the photo is modified. Metadata and watermarks can help determine a source image, and forensics can probe factors like lighting, noise distribution and edges on the pixel level to find inconsistencies. If a color is slightly off, for instance, forensic tools can flag it. But Adobe wagers that it could employ AI to find telltale signs of manipulation faster and more reliably.
Whenever someone alters an image, unless they are pixel perfect in their work, they always leave behind indicators that the photo is modified. Metadata and watermarks can help determine a source image, and forensics can probe factors like lighting, noise distribution and edges on the pixel level to find inconsistencies. If a color is slightly off, for instance, forensic tools can flag it. But Adobe wagers that it could employ AI to find telltale signs of manipulation faster and more reliably.
Sounds like that very same AI would work wonders for hiding just those signs. No one will know comrade Yezhov was ever there!
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
If AI can find it, then AI can hide it too.
We are reaching a point where we can't trust photographic or video evidence without a secure chain of custody.
With enough power, anything can be corrupted/faked.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.