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.

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1) you do need cryptography
2) ENS + verification from another trusted domain pointing to it as the official account

1. You don't need crypto to do that
2. How do you know which account is the pope's?

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