Harris: Future internet media could require watermarks to verify authenticity
Tristan Harris · The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2 · Feb 29, 2024 · at 14:49
Tristan Harris discusses potential technical and legal architectures required to authenticate real media in an era of abundant generative AI.
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“We have to come up with new meaning for what is evidence in a world where AI can generate that evidence. And there are ways of doing that. We could live in a world where the only places that any media you see on the internet Will only be on the internet if it's watermarked because we know that it was real.”
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