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It’d be naive to say that we’ve always been able to trust what we can see, as if seeing something is evidence that it really happened. There’s plenty of evidence throughout history of doctored photos, designed to fool the viewer into believing a story. That said, those skills weren’t easily accessible. Now, anybody can create…

Google introduced verified photography with the Pixel 10 series using the C2PA standard and also brought it to the Pixel 11 range. Apple, by contrast, only started offering support for verified photography with the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max — an entire generation after the Pixel 10 series. However, the company now claims its…

Today, powerful, widely available AI tools allow users to easily generate or alter photorealistic images to a degree that was difficult to imagine just a few years ago. These tools enable helpful features, like one-touch removal of background distractions, but they also make it difficult to distinguish between photographs that depict real events, and synthetic…

The iPhone 18 Pro models support Apple Reference Image, a way to verify that a photo was taken with an iPhone and hasn’t been edited. Apple says it’s a method to prove that something actually happened and wasn’t AI-generated, likening the feature to a digital film negative.