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I think this might be an actual use case for a blockchain like bitcoin. If someone takes an image or video and immediately embeds it into a bitcoin transaction, then at the very least that piece of raw media could be 100% verified as to the time of its creation or at least addition to the blockchain. If an event takes place at 3:52:04 pm and the image is uploaded at 3:52:25… at least you know no one had time to thoughtfully process what happened and create and upload an Ai fake. Or at least it would be MUCH more difficult. And if several images from different sources uploaded to the blockchain agree as to the events, that pretty much verifies it.
Snot FlickermanBlockchain would be so much more useful if it contained enough data to store photos/audio/video.
Literally the fact that you can’t is the only thing that made the entire NFT craze stupid as hell, because it’s just a link to a file, not the file itself.
It seems so shortsighted, especially in an era of such massive computing power and high internet speeds, to not be developing a chain that can support that kind of data if you really want to make “ownership” of specific data a thing.
And it would help in exactly this scenario because not only you would have the fact that it was added to the chain at the moment it happened, but you would have the original cryptographically signed and able to be proven to be the original every time.
Blockchain really does have so many good uses, and hardly anyone uses them for that, it’s all just conmen and criminals who use it primarily. Like those Judges for the ICC that the US is sanctioning, one aspect of cryptocurrency was originally to help debanked people still partake in public life, and those people could use something like that right now as the US locks them out of all US-based services.