fingerprint all GenAI content
People can generate a billion images every seconds. Also what about images generated locally and not put in that blockchain?
Once again, the blockchain is a solution looking for a problem to solve.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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Hey, what if we tried to cure cancer by mixing it with aggressive herpes?
You cannot fix society with technology, the end.
How would you enforce the entry of all generated AI content into said blockchain? Big providers might be persuaded or forced to participate, but it's not like someone - specifically well-funded bad actors - couldn't just set up their own servers at will.
Ahh yes, my intention was for such tech to make it difficult and mitigate harm not entirely stop it
If something lacked the fingerprint, it would immediately be suspicious.
But yeah I don't completely understand the tech, so I want to know if there's any such project or research on the same.
Block chain is an interesting form of fingerprinting that allows privacy for actors but not complete privacy.
If something lacked the fingerprint, it would immediately be suspicious.
Suspicious of what? Being non-AI?
I think you’d have better luck doing it the other way around: fingerprint known non-AI content, and treat everything else as potential AI.
Exactly. Use blockchain to trace image/video origins - ie media data plus camera signature and camera operator id with timestamps, and track the sources through every edit, along with edit transform info and editor id. That way any produced clip can be traced back to origins through all edits and then verified to particular real sources. A provable chain of custody of every image. If a video clip came from a trusted known camera operator and stays under the control of entities you trust, you can trust the video. If any links in the ownership or edits are sus, an author can track down and produce the in/out of any edit link to prove the authenticity.
Anything that relies on external factors for flagging AI images is doomed to fail.
There will quickly be tools created to strip the metadata from the image, or to create AI pictures but skipping adding the blockchain stuff
Images, text etc can be generated entirely offline and independently. There is nothing to force the image to be attached to the block chain either directly or as a fingerprint.
You would have to do the opposite: when you take a picture or video (or write some text?), as it is recorded, the camera chipset signs the image/video using TPM-esque hardware, proving (ish) that it was captured by a real camera sensor.
The issue is that it's pretty close to mandatory doxxing.
And you can't ever post process images.