The emergence of new tools aims to solve the long-standing issue of unreliable image provenance caused by stripped metadata. Trust in visual content depends on the relationships with creators, rather than just the content itself. Current advancements focus on cryptographic verification and binding, fostering accountability and trust within the digital landscape.Continue Reading
Until now, you have been the author of your own life. Not in the romantic sense — you don’t control everything that happens to you. But you controlled the telling. What you revealed and to whom. What you let recede into memory and what you chose to carry forward. TheContinue Reading
The quest for content authenticity amidst generative AI has led to various solutions, primarily blockchain and centralized platforms. However, these often create access barriers, undermining true distributed trust. Effective trust infrastructure needs universal accessibility, avoiding monetization that limits access. Solutions must resist becoming rent-seeking mechanisms, ensuring long-term and equitable verification systems.Continue Reading
The promise is seductive: generate product photography in seconds, automate image editing at scale, produce marketing visuals without the overhead of traditional production. Generative AI tools for visual content have moved from experimental curiosity to operational necessity faster than most compliance frameworks can adapt. If your organizationContinue Reading
Cloudflare acquired Human Native on January 15, 2026. The London startup had built a marketplace connecting content owners with AI companies seeking training data. The deal completes an 18-month infrastructure build, but the strategic question remains: is Cloudflare operating a toll booth that charges for passage, a warehouse that aggregatesContinue Reading
You can listen to the article here ( ~ 15 minutes): For 150 years, photography’s power rested on a simple fact: cameras don’t explain, they describe. Now we’re building systems that do both, and the implications for everyone who creates, manages, or verifies visual content are just starting toContinue Reading
What happens when images no longer need to be real, but still demand authority? When the BBC, the State Department, or Apple publishes an AI-generated image, viewers trust it. The label saying “AI-generated” doesn’t change that. If anything, the label reinforces trust – it shows the institution isn’t hiding anything.Continue Reading
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority escalated its investigation of the Getty Images-Shutterstock merger to Phase 2 on November 3, 2025, citing concerns about “substantial lessening of competition” and potential for “higher prices” and “lower quality” content for news publishers. Three weeks later, Getty CEO Craig Peters told the FinancialContinue Reading
The End of Visual Evidence It’s a few years from now. A photo surfaces of something that matters: a protest, an accident, a natural disaster. You watch it. You feel something. You assume it’s fake. You scroll past. The photograph might be real. Someone might have captured a genuine momentContinue Reading
AI Everywhere, But Not All the Time Every October in San Francisco, where robot taxis are busily roaming the streets, something peculiar happens. The photography industry’s old guard—print manufacturers, stock agencies, software makers—sits down with its new blood: the brilliant engineers building AI-powered photo services, mobile apps, editing tools, andContinue Reading