{"id":7030572,"date":"2026-08-06T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/its-getting-harder-but-not-impossible-to-film-verify-and-preserve-a-trustworthy-record\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:40:11","slug":"its-getting-harder-but-not-impossible-to-film-verify-and-preserve-a-trustworthy-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7030572","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s getting harder, but not impossible, to film, verify, and preserve a trustworthy record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Minneapolis, United States, videos recorded by bystanders and independent observers played a decisive role in exposing the violence of federal immigration agents and dismantling false narratives constructed against the victims earlier this year. The footage documented confrontations, executions, and abuses, directly contradicting official statements and forcing political and institutional responses. In this case, video functioned as evidence, truth, and accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This moment, however, is defined by a deep contradiction. Never before has it been so easy to document reality, and never before has it been so easy to fabricate it using generative media. This tension lies at the heart of a recent feature by The New York Times, titled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wit.to\/NYT-AI-2026\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d The article opens with a fundamental question for our time: Is seeing still believing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It describes a paradoxical moment. Documentary evidence continues to reveal the truth and produce real political, legal, and social consequences. At the same time, AI-generated images and videos are eroding the credibility of visual media at an unprecedented pace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The piece features WITNESS\u2019 work and reflections from Sam Gregory, the organization\u2019s Executive Director. For Gregory, the Minneapolis case is \u201cclearly an affirmation that we can still show what\u2019s real with video.\u201d He also warns of a greater, structural danger: the political power of doubt itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the killing of Alex Pretti, one of the Minneapolis residents shot by federal agents, AI-altered images circulated widely online. The image was based on real footage but enhanced to appear clearer and more dramatic, and its circulation became a tool for discrediting authentic evidence. As Gregory explains, \u201cyou just need to cast doubt.\u201d This reflects the logic of the liar\u2019s dividend, in which the mere existence of synthetic media is enough to undermine trust in truth itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each manipulated clip, synthetic recording, and viral fabrication does more than mislead. It corrodes the basic assumption that audiovisual content has a meaningful relationship to reality. When trust collapses, disengagement follows. People withdraw from public debate, civic participation, and demands for accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why at WITNESS, we argue that while it is becoming harder to film, verify, and preserve a trustworthy record, individual efforts alone are not enough. The defense of truth must be structural, collective, and sustained. In this context, defending reality also means building systems that allow evidence to remain credible, verifiable, and usable. It requires creating the technical, legal, and institutional foundations that support trust in public information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gen-ai.witness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Human-Rights-In-Standards.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA),<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we focus on building global technical standards that allow people to verify where content comes from, how it was created, and whether it has been altered. This work creates the infrastructure for provenance, enabling transparency about the role of AI and human intervention in images, video, and audio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.witness.org\/ai-detection-global-benchmark-witness-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TRIED framework<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we assess AI detection tools based on real-world conditions. TRIED evaluates whether these tools are trustworthy, robust, interpretable, effective, and deployable in the contexts where they are most needed, including journalism, human rights documentation, conflict settings, and civic accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At WITNESS, we continue to invest in these foundations because preserving a trustworthy record remains possible. It requires infrastructure, standards, legal frameworks, and collective action that protect evidence, strengthen verification, and limit the harms of synthetic media. Defending truth in the age of AI is now a systemic challenge, and meeting it is essential for accountability, democracy, and human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Minneapolis, United States, videos recorded by bystanders and independent observers played a decisive role in exposing the violence of federal immigration agents and dismantling false narratives constructed against the victims earlier this year. The footage documented confrontations, executions, and abuses, directly contradicting official statements and forcing political and institutional responses. 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