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Why don't social media and the web in general implement asymmetric key signing to always be able to verify the source of a content, thus eliminating the risk of deep fakes and fake news? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by linucs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Am I oversimplifying stuff too much?

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[–] n_emoo@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Deepfakes are about impersonating the person in the video, fake news is.. Well, just someone lying. Signatures are meant to verify the source of information, not the contents of it.

Simple example, we can be nearly 100% confident that the person posting tweets under the Trump account is (atleast authorized by) Trump. Doesnt stop him from lying nor uploading a deepfake video.