I don't understand the argument that crypto solves the problem of verifying real vs AI-generated content. how exactly does crypto help here? genuinely curious

https://twitter.com/js_horne/status/1642719006325915648

Building /bright-moments - minting onchain art IRL | /purple #15 | FID 129 #magikarp

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I get how the cryptography works but I don't get how this practically solves the core problems. anyone could just take any arbitrary image (like the AI Pope), sign it and say they created it. 

in the end it still feels like we'll rely on abstract social consensus to determine whether something's real

The signature must come from the camera itself. Not from the author of the picture. You will know it’s real because it’s signed with canon/Nikon/whatever private key. And that key must be trusted