Belsky: AI detection algorithms will never catch media manipulators
Scott Belsky · Adobe’s AI Revolution: Scott Belsky on Firefly, Photoshop & the Future of Creativity · Dec 6, 2023 · at 8:06
Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe, explains why Adobe focuses on verifying asset provenance rather than building AI detection algorithms.
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“We're never going to catch the bad actors because anyone can, you know, make anything and it's a cat and mouse game to have algorithms that tell whether something was edited or not.”
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