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Soon You Won't Be Able to Get Away With Faking Digital Pictures

In our world of digital information, everything is described by zeros and ones, even photographs. And it's incredibly easy to use software like Photoshop to alter an image after it is digitized to produce fake ones. Now, computer scientists from Dartmouth College have developed an algorithm able to tell the difference between a "real" image and a modified one. They "built a statistical model that captures the mathematical regularities inherent in natural images. Because these statistics...