Posted by imwally 1 day ago
Force sensor with volume swipe arrives on AirPods 5, a first for the open-ear form factor, adding the ability to quickly adjust volume by swiping up or down on the stem.
Add some qualifiers so that you can call yourself 'first'.
But Apple likely would reject such photo because of inappropriate depth map / LiDAR data.
If i create a high quality deepfake image, project it on a large screen and take a photo of that image with an iPhone (+apple verified image secure tag) ... would that resulting image be considered "authentic" by default?
Would digital forensics accessible to lay people still be able to fact-check and call out misuse / fakery of the new secure tag.
I do wonder how easy that would be to detect, but I can’t help but think some sort of artefacting or something would show up.
So the chain of trust is ...
Personal credibility of the person taking the photo with iPhone (till the moment picture is taken) + tamper-evident protection against unauthorized or anonymous edits and manipulation (after the iphone photo is published and circulated)
Apple cannot (of course) vouch for the former.
I have my doubts about this scheme but this is not one of them. If the point is that someone in principle could verify, that is enough for it to be useful, even if not everyone does.