Apple introduced yesterday Apple Reference Image : a way to cryptographically prove a photo was actually taken by a camera, instead of AI generated.

During my time at the Recurse Center this summer, Alex Hornstein and I (two camera lovers) built a camera with proof of capture .

The camera: a Raspberry Pi Zero, a display board, an ATECC608 crypto chip, a shutter button, and a 3D-printed enclosure.

Prove what’s real at capture time

Back in 2019 I was deploying ML fact-checking tools, and even in the Will-Smith-eating-spaghetti era it was obvious that generators outrun detectors .…