Adobe Releases Tool, Developed With the BBC, To Combat “Misinformation” in Images

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The “granddaddy of all that can be made visually astonishing fake” – i.e., the Photoshop developer and owner Adobe – has officially joined the battle against, no less, than images that convey “misinformation.” But wouldn’t that be pretty much every image, ever edited with Photoshop – that sadly omnipresent proprietary photo editor? Yet things are not exactly, and are they ever, as clear-cut and reasonable as they may seem at first. So – did Adobe – of all “people” have to jump on this particular bandwagon? Sure it did, because it’s not of the people – it’s of corporations. Not one, not two, but three+ dinosaurs are coming together – there’s Adobe, there’s the BBC, and there’s Microsoft. As if they were really ever, in the big picture of corporate and closed source things, working apart, they are now said to be working to combat “misinformation.” There is an icon that will be planted on photos as, essentially, some sort of implicitly “trusted” mark of authenticity. Not actual authenticity, though – the photo could be real, or “AI”-generated. The “CR” – “credentials” red icon is just there to tell you if after it was made, whichever way it was made, the image happened to be altered. For any reason. Now there’s a funny way to fight “misinformation.” But a further look at who else is on board reveals the real purpose of all this:…Adobe Releases Tool, Developed With the BBC, To Combat “Misinformation” in Images