Topic

Synthetic media

Images, audio and video produced or altered by generative models, and the ways such material circulates as though it were an authentic record.

Current clusters

invest1 publisher

Apple makes itself the notary for every authenticated iPhone 18 Pro photo

Reference Image has the iPhone 18 Pro sensor sign raw pixels inside the Secure Enclave, and Apple keeps verification on its own servers while Google, Leica, Sony and Canon sign with the open C2PA standard.

Publishers:pivotnews.ai

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption34
Hype gap+26
Incentives66
Confidence41

product1 publisher

A fabricated 9/11 rescue photo cleared five AI checkers on the first ask

Gizmodo asked five AI systems whether a viral image of the 9/11 rescuer Welles Crowther was real. Each described the fabrication as a photograph of some kind, and what caught it was a reverse image search.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption38
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence58