Media Authenticity Methods in Practice: Capabilities, Limitations, and Directions

Eric Horvitz, Andrew Jenks, Jessica Young
Insights from Microsoft’s Media Integrity and Authentication: Status, Directions, and Futures report It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction when viewing online images and videos. Resilient, trustworthy technologies can help people determine whether the content they are viewing was captured by a camera or microphone—or generated or modified by AI tools. We refer to technologies aimed at helping viewers verify the source and history—that is, the provenance—of...