I imagine blockchain could play a role in verifying the authenticity of photos and videos to help curb fake news as video doctoring technology advances.
I definitely buy that blockchain could be a useful way to buy and sell production materials/livestock/etc. Tracking the exchange of the things in a distributed ledger makes sense.
The problem with all of these are that they are problems with solutions that don’t need the blockchain and the whole blockchain ecosystem is just so tainted by fraud and shady actors everywhere.
I'd like to understand how that would work. Who would verify what? And why would we trust them? I mean if we don't trust a media outlet which brings up a photo or video about the authenticity, whom we gonna trust more?
A photo might have been brought into the blockchain by a certain entity, how this could be proven I can guess, but how long did it exist before, was it photographed or created with Photoshop, did the creator upload it or some other person?
I don't see how this would solve the fake news problem, but I'm eager to learn.
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I imagine blockchain could play a role in verifying the authenticity of photos and videos to help curb fake news as video doctoring technology advances.
I definitely buy that blockchain could be a useful way to buy and sell production materials/livestock/etc. Tracking the exchange of the things in a distributed ledger makes sense.
The problem with all of these are that they are problems with solutions that don’t need the blockchain and the whole blockchain ecosystem is just so tainted by fraud and shady actors everywhere.
I'd like to understand how that would work. Who would verify what? And why would we trust them? I mean if we don't trust a media outlet which brings up a photo or video about the authenticity, whom we gonna trust more?
A photo might have been brought into the blockchain by a certain entity, how this could be proven I can guess, but how long did it exist before, was it photographed or created with Photoshop, did the creator upload it or some other person?
I don't see how this would solve the fake news problem, but I'm eager to learn.