The Japanese companies “Sony”, “Canon” and “Nikon” are preparing for their first cooperation to develop a new technology that places a digital fingerprint inside the images captured by these companies’ cameras, to make it easier to distinguish them from images created using artificial intelligence.
The Nikkei Asia website stated that Nikon is preparing to introduce professional mirrorless cameras targeting professional photographers, especially photojournalists, and will contain the new technology.
The digital fingerprint consists of various forms of data that prove the reliability and authenticity of the image captured by the cameras of the three companies. The information consists of the date the image was taken, the hour of filming, the geographical location coordinates of the filming location, and the name of the photographer.
This technology comes at the end of a year that witnessed a wave of development in the production of graphic content, and the increase in artificial intelligence platforms that produce fake images and videos, and therefore many institutions and companies began searching for a way to differentiate between real and fake images.
The annual photography competition organized by Sony witnessed an incident that expressed this danger, as the German photographer, Boris Eldgsen, refused to accept an award in the open creativity category, for a picture entitled “Pseudomnesia: Fake Memories,” and admitted that he did not photograph it, but rather designed it using techniques. artificial intelligence.
“AI images should not compete with photography for an award like this, they are two different entities,” Eldgsen said in a statement on his website. “AI is not photography, and the competition cannot deal with art made in this way, so I will not accept this award.”
It should be noted that “Pseudomnesia” is a Latin term that means “false memory” for events that never occurred, as opposed to merely inaccurate memory.
The artist used visual language in the 1940s, and produced his images as false memories of a past that did not exist before, and that no one had photographed.
These images were imagined by artificial intelligence and re-edited more than 20 to 40 times.
