How Image Forensics Catches Fake Ghosts and Deepfakes
A listener named Daniel asks how people actually determined whether a photograph was real or altered — in the pre-digital era and now. We trace image forensics from hand-examined negatives and spirit photography hoaxes like Cottingley and Mumler, through Photoshop-era techniques like error level analysis and clone detection, to the provenance fingerprints being baked into AI-generated images today. Does any of it actually solve the problem, or does it just move it somewhere new? Episode 5601 — myweirdprompts.com/n/5601 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/284168)
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