More on FAQ #308

  • Won’t advances in technology render the Trust Test obsolete?

    No, because the Trust Test will always be based not on any specific technology or equipment but on the 9 characteristics of the most-widely trusted photographs.

    To determine how photographs can meet those 9 characteristics, the Trust Test will always incorporate the changes that billions of devices instantly perform by default—

    — and then will always apply the standards of the world’s largest providers of trusted photographs, whoever they may be in a given era, to ensure that the photograph isn’t misrepresentative (P7) or deceptive (P8).

  • TTG is here to stay

    Obviously as technologies come and go, some of the specifics within the drop-down details of the Trust Test may be tweaked to account for new ways that photographs are made.

    But the 9 basics will stay the same.

    In a challenging century of extreme public skepticism, it is unlikely that any respected international news agency will dismiss any of the 9 characteristics as being “no longer essential to earning viewers’ trust”—

    — especially not when there are other compelling ways of visually conveying information (most notably video) that either cannot, or aren’t expected to, have all 9 characteristics.