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Every viral photo on your timeline this week falls into one of three buckets: 1.Real 2. AI 3.Real, but from 2019, a different country, or a movie set

In case anyone wants to verify it proveit-app.com/verify/3c7ba54…

1st pic one of the many AI generated photos circulating X of the far right UTK rally turn out 2nd pic real footage from today Don’t be fooled by AI and check your sources

@BenGrahamUK proveit-app.com/verify/3c7ba54…

@proveIT_appnow This is nonsense, during a rally cars aren't allowed in the area. You've just made yourself look very silly for the whole internet to see.

@Investor_NICK_ This is exactly why evidence workflows need to move upstream. If a dispute depends on receipts or screenshots after the fact, everyone ends up arguing over whether the evidence is real. The solve is to verify at moment of capture and avoid AI detection after the dispute starts.

Instagram fitness influencer (IG: goob_u2) got scammed by an Airbnb host (who is a career criminal btw). He posts video documenting evidence including AI generated receipts to extract money from him. Airbnb’s response was telling him not to post on social media … $ABNB is trash.

@Dexerto @DoorDash ask them to use proveit next time (proveit-app.com)

DoorDash has responded to a TikToker who used ChatGPT to edit images of her food to get a $39.24 refund “Oop should’ve blocked us!”

@slantchev @alex_kokcharov This is a refreshingly good-faith exchange. The hard part is that verification still depends on someone noticing, checking, and correcting after the image has already traveled. We need better context attached to images before they ever get shared.

@alex_kokcharov It’s embarrassing for me to have made such a mistake but it would have been intolerable not to correct it. Thanks for pushing the point.

A Tale of Two Authoritarian Regimes, a state-financed capitalist on the left and the pathological kleptocracy on the right. The contrast between the 250,000-resident Chinese Manzhouli City and the 10,000-resident Russian Zabaykalsk that borders it, needs to words to explain. And that’s even accounting for the fact that China invests in its border cities to project soft power abroad while Russia’s imperial model sucks everything toward the Moscow-St Petersburg core.

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We’re entering a world of infinite output. AI can generate code, designs, and create even entire product roadmaps in seconds. Building is getting cheaper by the day. But judgment isn’t. It’s no longer about who can produce more. It’s about who can decide better. Taste and discernment isn’t just aesthetics. It’s: - Cutting a paragraph that sounds smart but says nothing - Knowing which slide to delete, not which one to add - Choosing the one priority that actually moves the needle And ignoring the flood of “good suggestions” that dilute focus. The hardest part of most white-collar work isn’t generating options anymore. It’s choosing well. And yet most tools optimize for speed and volume, not helping people get better at deciding. I’d love to see startups building toward products that help individuals train better judgement over time. What would it look like to create: - Tools that train people to attach real probabilities to their beliefs - and see, over time, where they tend to overestimate or underestimate - Systems that can make decision-making visible, trackable, and improvable - Tools that train you to prioritize ruthlessly, that is to pick the few things that matter - and get comfortable killing the rest In an age of infinite leverage, leverage without taste creates noise. I’m especially excited about founders building products that strengthen human discernment. In a world of abundance, discernment is the scarce asset. If you’re building here, DM me and let’s talk!

A core ProveIT decision: we are open sourcing the verification layer. If you claim to certify content as authentic, original, and camera-captured, users shouldn’t have to blindly trust the company behind it. Especially when you’re early. So we open sourced our first public verifier for ProveIT records: device attestation evidence C2PA manifest metadata blockchain anchoring evidence original-file hash checks verification record structure This is the first step toward a fully open verification core. The app can earn adoption. The system should earn trust. Repo: github.com/prove-it-org/o…

This is a perfect example of why image provenance is so important for small businesses. It's not just “is this AI-generated?” — it's “who uploaded it, where did it come from, and can the business prove which images are actually theirs?” Platforms need stronger proof-of-origin for visual evidence.

If FRAUD is an art. A guy uploads an AI-generated photo to a company's Google Business Profile, which includes his own company name and phone number. The company owner markets his company, people come, and see the photo. And call the FAKE number directly. Initially, the real owner loses customers. And, The FAKE guy is stealing customers from there for free.

Eddie Redmayne spotted in London proveit-app.com/verify/201c9c3…

average london commute

our team is heading to Perugia, excited to meet with journalist and experts working on image verification #ijf26

@billybinion This crash course will be obsolete in 18 months tops, when it will be impossible to distinguish the difference

This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.

Over 5M retweets even when clearly flagged as AI generated!

of the ~50% of ppl who can tell whether or not a video/photo is ai won't be able to in 18 months, & there's no asymptote where detection stabilizes.

@Osint613 being able to verify footage from the ground will become even more critical

Planet Labs will stop publishing high-resolution aerial images of areas involved in the Middle East war following a request from the U.S. government, the company says.

@signulll we believe the problem needs to be solved at the moment of capture. we have built a tool that allows for content to be cryptographically authenticated and independently verified. would love to give you a demo

@Osint613 how are you guys verifying the footage

Footage shows an explosion in Nakoura, Lebanon, carried out by the IDF.