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JEFF MCGREGOR, CEO, TRUEPIC - AUTHENTICATING WHAT'S REAL IN A DEEPFAKE, SYNTHETIC WORLD

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SEASON 2, EPISODE 15

JEFF MCGREGOR, CEO, TRUEPIC -
AUTHENTICATING WHAT'S REAL IN A DEEPFAKE, SYNTHETIC WORLD

 

 

 

Before the decade is out, over 90% of all the content on the internet will be artificially generated. From deepfakes of famous faces to flattering (or not-so-flattering) Instagram and TikTok filters, we've already seen a glimpse of what's possible. But as generative AI rapidly evolves and becomes more widespread, fake media is getting real… deceptively real. Separating fact from fiction will soon become nearly impossible, and, left unchecked, the proliferation of fake and manipulated digital content will lead to the dangerous erosion of trust and transparency in institutions, services, relationships, and society. But Jeff McGregor sees a more optimistic future. As CEO of Truepic, a company named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2022, he's on a mission to restore authenticity, transparency, and trust across the internet. Truepic's patented secure camera technology verifies and authenticates digital media at the point of creation by capturing, signing, and sealing the metadata inside of every photo or video, creating a tamper-evident digital fingerprint that can be tracked across the web. Jeff joins the podcast to explain why, in an era of AI-generated synthetic media, establishing a framework to ensure the authenticity of visual media is critical. He also shares his insights on the broader implications of digital manipulation for society and how Truepic is addressing these challenges to bring trust and transparency back online.  

One of the fundamentally scary things about what's happening on the internet today is that, as more disinformation and misinformation spreads and as technologies that allow for the creation of synthetic content continue to proliferate, we start to end up in a world where we can't trust anything. We can't even trust the real content because…we’ve been victims to fraud or we've seen disinformation in real time on our social media platforms. And that creates a dynamic where we start to call everything into question. So, if anything can be faked, nothing is real anymore. And it starts to sow a societal level of distrust in the information that we're consuming.
Jeff McGregor
Jeff McGregorCEO, Truepic

LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE TO LEARN:

  • What are we talking about when we say “synthetic media,” “deepfake,” and “cheapfake”?
  • Why it’s neither sustainable nor scalable to solve the problem by identifying what’s fake, but rather by authenticating what’s real
  • How Truepic’s secure camera technology works to authenticate and verify metadata from the moment a picture or video is captured to the moment someone views it 
  • The many use cases of digital content authenticity technology, including fraud and identity theft prevention in the financial services and insurance industry
  • The consequences of inaction as generative AI technology gets more sophisticated and fake content proliferates (warning: we’ll end up in a world where we can’t trust anything!)
  • Why companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and others have joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, or the C2PA, a multi-stakeholder organization that’s designing shared file standards for visual media  
  • Why social media platforms will soon have no choice but to adopt tools that display digital media transparency

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