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T.J. Thomson, Associate Professor of Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University

More phones may soon let us prove photos are real – but will it solve the AI fake image crisis?

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“Pics or it didn’t happen” was a thing people used to say online when they wanted to verify a claim. Technology has changed this.

We now regularly see a mix of the surreal and the fantastic. World leaders saying things they didn’t. Public figures seemingly endorsing fake products. And disasters that unfold before our eyes but didn’t really happen.

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