A recent study from Popsa highlights some very interesting facts about our relationship with photographs today. After surveying 8,000 non-professional consumers across different age groups and countries, the study reveals that 70% of the photos we take are never revisited. Of the roughly two trillion photographs taken each year globally,Continue Reading
The current crop of AI image-authenticity tools tends to do one thing. You upload a photograph, the tool returns a number. 73% likely AI-generated. 0.21 confidence of manipulation. The number is supposed to settle the question. It doesn’t, of course, because the number is a statistical probability that the imageContinue Reading
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
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
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 evolution from cave paintings to written text took millennia. The return journey might just be around the corner Human communication began with images. Long before the first written word, our ancestors painted scenes on cave walls, not as decoration, but as visual communication systems that conveyed complex ideas aboutContinue Reading
You used to prove your identity with a password. Now you need to prove you’re not synthetic. The alarm bells started ringing in Hong Kong when an employee transferred $25 million to fraudsters during what appeared to be a routine video conference with colleagues and the CFO. The twist? EveryoneContinue Reading
Six years ago, a group of concerned publishers and a formidable creative software company, well-versed in the manipulation of digital content, joined forces to develop what may be the most important and underestimated standard of this generation. Ironically, this was before the rise of Generative AI. Since then, three summitsContinue Reading
Perception, like clouds, is shaped more by the observer than the object. One person sees a horse galloping through the sky; another sees a face, a dragon, or nothing at all. The sky doesn’t change—the viewer does. And so it is with images. We do not see the world asContinue Reading