White House Seeks New Standards to Combat Deepfakes and Verify Official Communications
• White House exploring use of cryptography to authenticate official communications and combat deepfakes
• Watermarks can be manipulated; inverse approach of proving authenticity is attractive
• Administration working on watermarking standards to address authenticity issues
• Partnerships forming across tech industry to embed signatures in digital content
• Advances in AI making it easier to scam public; government rules needed alongside public awareness