Photography

The tell-tale art

How do you know whether a photo is real or fake? Digital ‘birth certificates’ are a new way to answer that Joe Castaldo The Globe and Mail Published 16 minutes ago

Screenshot of analysis generated by Sony's authentication system on a photograph carrying a digital certificate. The coloured dots represent depth information captured by the camera. Original image by Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail

There may come a time for each of us when we are fooled by a picture or video generated by artificial intelligence . For this reporter, it’s already happened.

The culprit was a TikTok video supposedly filmed by a security camera in someone’s living room. A golden retriever hops through a doggie door, a gushing garden hose in its jaws, and happily sprays water

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