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1. Authenticity in the age
of disinformation
Dr. Mansoor Ahmed-Rengers

2. Dog’s lungs Aristocracy Superpower Regression Authenticity

3. Experiment made by M. Hook of Preserving Animals alive by Blowing through their Lungs with bellows, October 24, 1667

4. Dog’s lungs Aristocracy Superpower Regression Authenticity

5. Experiment made by M. Hook of Preserving Animals alive by Blowing through their Lungs with bellows, October 24, 1667

6. “Noble company” == aristocracy

7. “Noble company” == eyewitnesses

8. Dog’s lungs Aristocracy Superpower Regression Authenticity

10. Witnesses -> Evidence

11. The Superpower to Know without
being Present

12. Dog’s lungs Aristocracy Superpower Regression Authenticity

13. They don’t make them like they used to

14. Journalism to the rescue
•Fact checking
•Financial disclosures
•Forensics
•Automated detection

16. Deepfakes are getting better and
increasingly trivial to produce

17. Disinformation warfare is the new front for
nation state conflict
Credit: New York Post Credit: BBC

19. Dog’s lungs Aristocracy Superpower Regression Authenticity

20. Existing solutions do not work
•Fact checking: does not scale
•Financial disclosures: are poor heuristics
•Forensics: don’t scale and too expensive
•Automated detection: helps the fakesters!

21. Don’t Detect; Declare
Establish Digital Provenance

22. What is provenance?
Provable history of the artefact in question

23. Digital Provenance
Trace of content from photons to photons

24. OpenOrigins = for content
Allow honest creators
to demonstrably
declare what they have
done to the content
01
Allow users to make up
their own minds with
trustworthy information
02
Enforce
cryptographically
provable provenance
03

25. Digital
Provenance
Blockchain
Transparent
UI
Strong
cryptography
Secure
capture

26. Secure
capture
Blockchain
Transparent
UI
Strong
cryptography

27. The end-result = digital provenance

28. Authenticity in the age of disinformation
Dog’s lungs Aristocracy Superpower Regression Authenticity
Authenticity

29. Next Steps for OpenOrigins
Content
Platform
• “Social media but real”
• Open platform for anyone interested in
authentic content and provability
Enterprise
integration
• Collaborative maintenance of blockchain
• Secure, private anchoring of internal content
Hardware
expansion
•Dedicated chips for transparent signing
•Initially targeting CCTV and news crews

30. Stay in touch!
Email me:
mansoor@openorigins.com
Email someone else:
hi@openorigins.com
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