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Don’t bring an AI detector to a deepfake fight: proving reality through multimodal provenance
Epistemic status: confident on the framing, speculative on the implementationTL;DR: Fake media detectors are on the losing end of an arms race. Instead of trying to spot fakes, we need to distrust images and videos by default, unless we can prove they're real. Cryptographically-signed multimodal capture raises the cost