“There is no other viable solution

. . . for combatting the millions of deceptive images that are coming.”

  • 1. Why not just focus on identifying untrustworthy images?

    That was a plausible approach in the pre-digital age, but those days are long gone.

    Already online are millions of untrustworthy images, with millions more to come. It is difficult to identify even a small fraction of them, let alone to do anything about them.

  • 2. Why not require disclosure labels on untrustworthy images?

    That may sound like a good idea on first hearing, and it might even be partially enforceable within a few countries.

    But images are not constrained by national borders.

    It is safe to assume that disclosure labels will not be put on most of the millions of “fake” images generated around the world—

    . . . and the most dangerous images coming from other countries are highly unlikely to have a disclosure label.

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  • 3. So what's the solution?

    The only realistic solution is having the public continually identify which image sources are the most trustworthy.

    Since the holders of the “most trustworthy” title can change overnight after a single misstep...

    . . . the best way for the public to stay up to date is with repeatedly applied image-source trust tests.