> (Summary) The icon should be directly embedded into the deep fake or published text (except for creative works), unless equivalent alternatives are available such as a user interface overlay. The icon must be visible when content is reshared or downloaded.

Edit: Thinking through this a bit more, I think the goal of _authenticating_ a photo using C2PA is still useful. If the goal is to remove them to get a "naked" image, that's fine, such an image is then inherently no more or less trustworthy than any other image. If the goal is to figure out how to reproduce a valid provenance chain on top of an altered image then I have problems with that.

I'm waiting on Apple to approve the MacOS version. After I will either focus on removing SynthID (currently not supported) or releasing android.

Keep in mind that the replacement must be a first class citizen in the society I live in. That means being able to easily transfer money using the app everyone uses where I live. It means public transport ticket apps. It means banking apps. It means iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat and Signal.

This.

> However, he demonstrated a clear lack of understanding regarding what makes the bits "independent" or how to resolve the independence problem.

Yes, I didn’t want to call it out explicitly, but this is exactly the kind of thing that would have made my undergraduate statistics professor lose patience.