Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes
Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. Image: 9to5MacApple doesn’t access the raw photo itself during this process, but it may receive sensor data that allows it to prevent images connected to compromised sensors from being authenticated, or retroactively revoke prior authentication on images associated with the sensor. Authenticated photos can be viewed on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, according to MacRumors.By this description, Apple Reference Image works similarly to the C2PA Content Credentials provenance standard, which can be used to trace how and where an image was made, and if generative AI tools were used to make or manipulate it.
- ▪Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera.
- ▪Image: 9to5MacApple doesn’t access the raw photo itself during this process, but it may receive sensor data that allows it to prevent images connected to compromised sensors from being authenticated, or retroactively revoke prior authentica
- ▪Authenticated photos can be viewed on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, according to MacRumors.By this description, Apple Reference Image works similarly to the C2PA Content Credentials provenance standard, which can be used to trace how and where a
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