That's where perceptual hashing would be more useful in theory. You'd be able to tell if the image as a human would see it has been altered or not, regardless of what changes have been made to the file format, compression, metadata etc.

My thinking was this would be useful verify that an image hasn't been altered, for example, using AI to misrepresent a real life event. As someone else mentioned in another comment though, perceptual hashing isn't reliable at the moment.

oops, typo: steganography

Then all images anyone ever exchanges will be 'tampered with' as a matter of course anyway so what's the point of having a hash that will never match? If the application author's intention is to detect file tampering, why limit it to images in the first place?

Also why do you think perceptual hashing won't detect doctored images? Besides stenography, what use is there in verifying an image file wasn't re-encoded if the actual image is unchanged?

Wow that's quite the leap you made there. No I have no vested interest in tampering with evidence. I'm just acutely aware that modern cloud platforms and web services do not keep original image files in-tact when you use them to exchange said images.

Your mental gymnastics are truly impressive though!

Is it a hash of the actual file, or a perceptual hashing of the image scene? The former would be quite fragile as so many things can alter an image file without altering the image per se, like compression or metadata stripping when uploading the file. Perceptual hashing would verify the authenticity of the scene itself and should survive file conversion and some amount of compression.

This sounds like perceptual hashing would be more useful, specially since the use cases mentioned are unlikely to have proper chain of custody processes for evidence handling without accidentally altering image files during upload / exchange

I'm not entirely convinced; the interest from the security industry and governments on the news of OpenAI's initially reported slip up and the capability it suggests has been great so far. I've seen both companies outright lie in response to each other over capability before so I'm naturally cynical here.

Then I guess ours did FIVE!
--OpenAI, probably

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Mate... I feel that way after a solid 8 hour day of code archeology even without AI assistants. Must be nice to not experience fatigue ever. To me this sounds like the AI tools just made you actually do a full day's work for once.

I was pretty grateful that Horizon; Zero Dawn and Horizon: Forbidden West were ported. I'll be pissed off if the third game isn't. Not enough to go make me buy a console though, just a lost sale for Sony.

Cool... cool. So can you up those usage limits on Pro yet? Not that I mind taking a 4 hour break in the middle of the work day but my managers kinda do.

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here this is the War Room!

Correct. They removed the ability to connect to anything but an Azure VM instance (of various kinds). There was talk of them 'working' on 'adding this functionality' as if it was never there in the first place and removed by a dickwad product manager to force people into the Azure ecosystem, but even if they did put it back in you'd still need either a corporate or educational - not personal - MS account to launch it.

The 'Remote Desktop' app in the app store, which is the product 'Windows App for Windows' was directly forked from, at first merely rebranded and then feature locked, does allow you to connect to local machines and does not require a corp or edu ms account to use. But that's dead now, so your only option from a Windows desktop is mstsc, which doesn't handle live desktop resizing etc etc.
Kind of weird how they treat Windows Desktop users as second-class citizens for their shiny new RDP app, but let IOS, Macos, and Android enjoy the nicer experience. Fucking weird. Which is why I'm thinking they're going to gimp those too at some stage soon.

Ackshually it's called 'Windows App for Windows', which is a COMPLETELY different product to Windows App for IOS/Android/Mac. The latter support local connections without needing a *corporate*or *educational* MS account login to even run the thing. 'Windows App for Windows' is a very particular kind of retarded. The other Windows Apps are very useful and I dread the day MS decides to fuck with those as well.

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