AI image fraud will cost $40 billion next year - can these international standards help?

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• AI or real? Images now have a credibility problem.
• Standards to help identify AI images proposed by EIC and ISO.
• JPEG Trust represents the first steps toward image authentication.

International standards bodies are stepping up efforts to help provide the tools that end users and companies need to distinguish real images, videos, and other content from deepfakes and AI-generated slop. New standards were recently announced at the AI for Good conference hosted in Geneva under the auspices of the UN.

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A credibility crisis has arisen, and it's only getting worse when it comes to imagery, reaching the point where one can no longer distinguish between actual photos and AI-generated fakes. This has implications across society and businesses, raising doubts about the authenticity...

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