Apple Reference Photo Lets iPhone Photographers Prove What’s Real
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Apple spent much of its “Surprise and shine” fall event breathlessly detailing the new AI capabilities of Apple Intelligence and the new Photographic Styles with the iPhone 18 Pro. The new features offer greater AI-assisted abilities to change the look of a photo. In the midst of all this, the company also introduced a defense against AI-generated and -altered images.
The iPhone 18 Pro adds a new Reference camera mode, which digitally authenticates that an image you took with the phone hasn’t been altered with AI. It creates an unalterable reference photo captured by the phone’s sensor. The phone sends sensor signatures and other identifiers to Private Cloud Compute to authenticate the reference photo.
Reference photos are saved in the Photos...
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