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

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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

It would be different if it came from the Pope's account. That's the use case.

yes but this implies that we should trust the pope to always verify information about himself, which he’s only incentivized to do so if it’s positive

what if he actually did wear the jacket, refused to verify the post, but a bunch of citizens verified it? in the end, you still rely on social trust

yep, can only prove "X did A", not "X did not do B". Pope could at least claim he *didn't* wear the jacket (and then potentially be exposed as lying if strong evidence came out he did).