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

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

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